Rossiter Bay
Rossiter Bay is on the southern coast of Western Australia, in the Cape Le Grand National Park approximately 36 kilometres east of Esperance. The bay is noted as the place that the explorer Edward John Eyre and his Aboriginal companion Wylie met the crew of the French whaling ship Mississippi in June 1841 after they had completed a crossing of the Nullarbor Plain.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Aussie Oc, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rossiter Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: bight in Western Australia
- Categories: bight and body of water
- Location: Western Australia, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-33.9655° or 33° 57′ 56″ southLongitude
122.27494° or 122° 16′ 30″ eastElevation
1 metre (3 feet)Open location code
4QR427MF+RXOpenStreetMap ID
node 3020493613OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Rossiter Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Rossiter Bay”
- Portuguese: “Baía rossiter”
- Portuguese: “Baía Rossiter”
- Swedish: “Rossiter Bay”
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