Definition of Great Australian Bight

1. Noun. A wide bay of the Indian Ocean in southern Australia; notorious for storms.

Group relationships: Australia, Commonwealth Of Australia, Australia
Generic synonyms: Bight

Lexicographical Neighbors of Great Australian Bight

Graves' disease
Graves' ophthalmopathy
Graves' optic neuropathy
Graves' orbitopathy
Gravesian
Grawitz' basophilia
Grawitz' tumour
Gray
Gray Friar
Gray code
Gray codes
Grayan
Grayson
Graz
Great Attractor
Great Australian Bight (current term)
Great Barrier Reef
Great Basin
Great Bear
Great Britain
Great Britain and Ireland
Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Great Dane
Great Danes
Great Depression
Great Divide
Great Dividing Range
Great Dog
Great Falls
Great Firewall of China

Literary usage of Great Australian Bight

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. What We Saw in Australia by Rosamond Davenport Hill, Florence Davenport Hill (1875)
"Departure for Adelaide — Great Australian Bight — Kangaroo Island — Geographical Divisions of the Continent — English ignorance of Australia — Foundation of ..."

2. The History of Discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand: From the by William Howitt (1865)
"Sailed along the great Australian Bight.—Survey of the coast eastward to Cape Catastrophe.—The loss of Mr. Thistle, master of the vessel, and a whole boat's ..."

3. Australasia and the Oceanic Region: With Some Notice of New Guinea, from by William Brackley Wildey (1876)
"Great Australian Bight is the half-moon indentation of the southern coast ot Australia, east of Recherche Archipelago. The whole of this coast is sandy, ..."

4. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia by Royal Society of South Australia (1878)
"The western portion of the country which lies around the Head of the Great Australian Bight is almost a terra incognita to the naturalist, ..."

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