Eyre Peninsula

Geographical location

The Eyre Peninsula (English Eyre Peninsula ) is a triangular peninsula in South Australia. It lies between the Spencer Gulf in the east and the Great Australian Bight to the west and is bordered to the north by the Gawler Ranges. It is named after explorer Edward John Eyre who explored it in the years 1839-1841 in part. The coasts were of Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin at the beginning of the 19th century. been explored.

The main cities are the Port Lincoln in the south, Whyalla and Port Augusta in the north- east, and Ceduna in the northwest of the peninsula.

In addition to mining (near Cowell Jade is promoted at Iron Knob iron ore ) farming is done in the first place. In the drier northern cereal crops and sheep and cattle in the humid south and dairy farming and viticulture. Port Lincoln is a center of the Australian fishing.

On the Eyre Peninsula are a number of national parks, including the Lincoln National Park, Coffin Bay National Park and the Gawler Ranges National Park and a number of reserves as of Pinkawillinie - Conservation Park.

In January 2005, it came on the Eyre Peninsula, one of the worst bushfires in Australia the past twenty years in Australia, the Eyre Peninsula bushfires, in which nine people lost their lives.