Eyre Peninsula
The Eyre Peninsula is a coastal region of South Australia offering some spectacular holiday experiences - particularly wildlife interactions. It's one of the biggest peninsulas in Australia, about the size of the Netherlands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Whyalla and Port Lincoln.
Whyalla
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Whyalla is a city on the northeastern Eyre Peninsula, which was developed around the steelworks, port and nearby iron ore deposits in the early 20th century.
Port Lincoln
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Port Lincoln is a city on the Lower Eyre Peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia. Known as Galinyala by the Barngarla people who hold native title rights, it is situated on the shore of Boston Bay, which opens eastward into Spencer Gulf.
Ceduna
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Ceduna is on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. It's the last significant town for travellers heading west on the Eyre Highway from Port Augusta to Western Australia in South Australia.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Tumby Bay and Streaky Bay.
Tumby Bay
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Tumby Bay is a town on the Eyre Peninsula around 1 hour drive north of Port Lincoln, South Australia.
Streaky Bay
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Streaky Bay is a coastal town on the western side of the Eyre Peninsula, in South Australia just off the Flinders Highway, 303 km north-west of Port Lincoln and 727 km by road from Adelaide.
Cowell
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Cowell is a coastal town on Franklin Harbor on the eastern side of the Eyre Peninsula, in South Australia on the Lincoln Highway 111 km south of the major town of Whyalla.
Wudinna
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Wudinna is a town of about 500 people on the Eyre Highway in the wheat-growing region of Eyre Peninsula, South Australia.
Gawler Ranges National Park
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Gawler Ranges National Park is a South Australian national park in the northern edges of the Eyre Peninsula region in South Australia. The park is mostly known for its Organ Pipes.
Coffin Bay National Park
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There is perhaps no better example of a better coastal national park in South Australia other than Coffin Bay National Park. Being just 50 km west of the Eyre Peninsula's regional centre, Port Lincoln, the park has many amazing coastal landscapes to offer.
Coffin Bay
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Coffin Bay is a town in South Australia on the Eyre Peninsula, just under an hours drive from Port Lincoln.
Iron Knob
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Iron Knob is a community of 110 people on the Eyre Peninsula. The town was named for its proximity to a prominent outcrop from the flat surrounding landscape that contained a large deposit of iron ore.
Minnipa
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Minnipa is a town in South Australia, the gateway to the Eyre Peninsula.
Eyre Peninsula
- Type: Peninsula
- Description: peninsula in South Australia
- Also known as: “Eyres Peninsula” and “Eyria Peninsula”
- Location: South Australia, Australia, Oceania
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Yakut—“Eyre Peninsula” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Էյր (թերակղզի)”
- Armenian: “Էյր”
- Azerbaijani: “Eyr yarımadası”
- Basque: “Eyre penintsula”
- Belarusian: “Паўвостраў Эйр”
- Belarusian: “Эйр”
- Bulgarian: “Еър (полуостров)”
- Bulgarian: “Еър”
- Cebuano: “Eyre Peninsula”
- Chinese: “埃尔半岛”
- Chinese: “艾爾半島”
- Czech: “Eyreův poloostrov”
- Dutch: “Eyre-schiereiland”
- Esperanto: “Duoninsulo Eyre”
- Estonian: “Eyre’i poolsaar”
- French: “Peninsule d’Eyre”
- French: “péninsule d’Eyre”
- French: “Péninsule d’Eyre”
- French: “Péninsule de Eyre”
- German: “Eyre Peninsula”
- German: “Eyre-Halbinsel”
- German: “Eyrehalbinsel”
- Hungarian: “Eyre-félsziget”
- Italian: “Penisola di Eyre”
- Italian: “Penisola Eyre”
- Japanese: “エアー半島”
- Japanese: “エア半島”
- Lithuanian: “Ero pusiasalis”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Eyre Peninsula”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Eyre-halvøya”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Eyrehalvøya”
- Norwegian: “Eyrehalvøya”
- Persian: “ایر پنینسولا”
- Persian: “شبه جزیره ایر”
- Persian: “شبه جزیرهٔ ایر”
- Persian: “شبهجزیره ایر”
- Polish: “Półwysep Eyre’a”
- Polish: “Półwysep Eyre”
- Polish: “Półwysep Eyrego”
- Portuguese: “Península de Eyre”
- Russian: “Полуостров Эйр”
- Russian: “Эйр”
- Slovak: “Eyrov polostrov”
- Spanish: “Peninsula de Eyre”
- Spanish: “Península de Eyre”
- Swedish: “Eyre Peninsula”
- Turkish: “Eyre Yarımadası”
- Ukrainian: “Ейр”
- Uzbek: “Eyr”
- Yakut: “Эйр”
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