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Peninsula in South Australia
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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.
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By ferry
Spencer Gulf Searoad runs a regular ferry service with two or three crossings on weekdays (dependent on time of year and weather) and single crossings on weekends.
By car
Port Augusta is around 4 hours drive from Adelaide, which is at the start of the Lincoln Highway to Port Lincoln and the Eyre Highway towards Ceduna.
By coach
Premier Stateliner runs a daily services between Port Lincoln and Adelaide, with a second service terminating at Whyalla. This services Cowell, Arno Bay, Cleve, Port Neill, and Tumby Bay en route.
The Lincoln Highway from Port Augusta to Port Lincoln is roughly a 4 hour drive down the east coast of the peninsula, and the main road route from Adelaide and the east.
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the last major town before the Nullarbor
Cowell and Lucky Bay are neighbouring towns on the Eyre Peninsula.
tourist town next to Coffin Bay National Park, which is known for its beaches
Iron Knob is a community of 110 people (2021) 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.
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.
Minnipa is a town in South Australia, the gateway to the Eyre Peninsula.
Australia's seafood capital
Streaky Bay is on the Eyre Peninsula.
Tumby Bay is a town on the Eyre Peninsula around 1 hour drive north of Port Lincoln, South Australia.
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. Today it is a modern and vibrant country town, with good weather, beaches, fishing and boating, and is the third largest city by population in South Australia.
the centrepoint of Granite Country
home to some of the state's whitest beaches
home to the Organ Pipes rock formation, owing to the volcanic eruptions about 1500 million years ago
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