Encounter Bay

- 36.182225139.283752Koordinaten: 36 ° 11 ' S, 139 ° 17 ' E

The Encounter Bay ( German "Bay of meeting" ) is located on the south central coast of South Australia, about 100 km south of Adelaide. Named the bay is after the peaceful encounter of the Englishman Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin, the French the Australian coastline exact measurements on 8 April 1802, when both on behalf of their countries. The encounter of the two scientists was peaceful, even though their countries were at that time in the war. The ships moored to each other and the explorers exchanged their collective knowledge. The Baudin expedition was a very successful expedition, which was able to collect more than 100,000 species, of which 2,500 were newly discovered.

The bay forms a large curve at the coastline of Newland Head to the south coast of the Fleurieu Peninsula and south to Cape Jaffa, at a distance of 180 km. Settlements along the bay are in Victor Harbor, Port Elliot, Middleton, Goolwa and Kingston. The Murray River, Inman and Hindmarsh River draining into the bay and a long strip of the southern shore of the mouth of the Murray River adjacent to the Coorong National Park. In the bay lies the granite Iceland, an island that is connected by a causeway to the mainland and is looked over by numerous recreation seekers.