{{other uses|Coffin Bay (disambiguation){{!}}Coffin Bay}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}} {{Use Australian English|date=March 2013}} {{Infobox Australian place | type = town | name = Coffin Bay | native_name = {{nativename|nwo|Mudhabaga}} | state = sa | image = Coffin Bay Channel South Australia.JPG | caption = View down Coffin Bay Channel | coordinates = {{coord|34.624406|S|135.469651|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | coord_ref = <ref name="LMV">{{cite web|title=Search results for 'Coffin Bay, LOCB' with the following datasets selected – 'Suburbs and localities', 'Counties', 'Hundreds', 'Local Government Areas', 'SA Government Regions' and 'Gazetteer'|url= http://location.sa.gov.au/viewer/?map=roads&x=135.35815&y=-34.58146&z=11&uids=19,2,115,8,11,20,105&pinx=135.471050&piny=-34.622980&pinTitle=Location&pinText=Coffin+Bay,+Locb |website=Location SA Map Viewer|publisher=South Australian Government|access-date=14 February 2019}}</ref> | pushpin_label_position = left | pop = <!--leave blank to draw the latest automatically from Wikidata--> | established = 1952 ("shack area")<ref name=manning02/><br/>1957 (private town)<ref name=manning02>{{Cite web |url=http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/digitalpubs/placenamesofsouthaustralia/C.pdf |work=Manning Index of South Australian History |title=South Australian Names – C |first=Geoffrey |last=Manning |author-link=Geoffrey Manning |publisher=State Library of South Australia |access-date=24 October 2019}}</ref><br/>2003 (locality) | established_footnotes = <ref name=SAGG-2003>{{Citation |first1=Jay |last1=Weatherill |title=GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991, Notice to Assign Boundaries and Names to Places (within the District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula and the City of Port Lincoln) |journal=The South Australian Government Gazette |page=3796 |date=16 October 2003 |url=http://www.governmentgazette.sa.gov.au/sites/default/files/documentstore/2003/October/2003_098.pdf |access-date=24 October 2019 |archive-date=9 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409101800/http://www.governmentgazette.sa.gov.au/sites/default/files/documentstore/2003/October/2003_098.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| gazetted = | postcode = 5607<ref name=postcode>{{cite web|title=Postcode for Coffin Bay, South Australia |url=https://postcodes-australia.com/areas/sa/country+south+australia/coffin+bay |publisher=postcodes-australia.com |access-date=23 October 2019}}</ref> | elevation = | elevation_footnotes = | area = | area_footnotes = | timezone = [[UTC9:30|ACST]] | utc = +9:30 | timezone-dst = [[UTC10:30|ACST]] | utc-dst = +10:30 | dist1 = 288 | dir1 = W | location1= [[Adelaide city centre|Adelaide]]<ref name=postcode/> | dist2 = 36 | dir2 = W | location2 = [[Port Lincoln]]<ref name=postcode/> | lga = [[District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula]]<ref name="LMV"/> | region = [[Eyre Western]]<ref name="LMV"/> | county = [[County of Flinders|Flinders]]<ref name="LMV"/> | stategov = [[Electoral district of Flinders|Flinders]]<ref name= ECSA >{{cite web|title=District of Flinder Background Profile|url=https://www.ecsa.sa.gov.au/electoral-districts/electoral-district-profiles?view=article&id=827:flinders |publisher=Electoral Commission SA|access-date=1 June 2019}}</ref> | fedgov = [[Division of Grey|Grey]]<ref name=AEC>{{cite web|title=Federal electoral division of Grey |url=http://www.aec.gov.au/profiles/sa/files/2011/2011-aec-a4-map-sa-grey.pdf |publisher=Australian Electoral Commission|access-date=1 June 2019}}</ref>
| maxtemp = 21.3 | maxtemp_footnotes = <ref name=climate>{{cite web|title=Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics NORTH SHIELDS (PORT LINCOLN AWS) (nearest weather station) |url= http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_018192_All.shtml |publisher=Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology|access-date=23 October 2019}}</ref> | mintemp = 11.3 | mintemp_footnotes = <ref name=climate/> | rainfall = 389.8 | rainfall_footnotes = <ref name=climate/>
| near-n = [[Wangary, South Australia|Wangary]] | near-ne = [[Wangary, South Australia|Wangary]] | near-e = [[Wangary, South Australia|Wangary]]<br/>[[Uley, South Australia|Uley]] | near-se = [[Uley, South Australia|Uley]] | near-s = ''Ocean''<br/>[[Uley, South Australia|Uley]] | near-sw = ''Ocean'' | near-w = ''[[Coffin Bay (South Australia)|Coffin Bay (waterbody)]]''<br/>''Ocean'' | near-nw = ''[[Coffin Bay (South Australia)|Coffin Bay (waterbody)]]'' | footnotes = Adjoining localities<ref name="LMV"/> }} '''Coffin Bay''' ({{langx|nwo|Mudhabaga}}),<ref>{{cite web | title=Mobile Language Team | Nauo Wordlist | url=https://portal.mobilelanguageteam.com.au/lessons/nauo-wordlist/ }}</ref> originally '''Coffin's Bay''',<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32077341 |title=The Situation of the New Colony |newspaper=[[The Sydney Monitor|The Sydney Monitor (NSW : 1828 – 1838)]] |location=NSW |date=11 April 1832 |access-date=31 July 2013 |page=4 Edition: Afternoon |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> is a town at the southern extremity of the [[Eyre Peninsula]], a wheat growing area of [[South Australia]].<ref>[[File:CC-BY icon.svg|50px]] Material was copied from this source, which is available under a [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License].</ref>
The town is situated on the western side of the southern tip of Eyre Peninsula about 46 km from [[Port Lincoln, South Australia|Port Lincoln]]. The population swells during holiday seasons to more than 4,000 people due to its proximity to the [[Coffin Bay National Park]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Delaney |first=Jarrad |date=2021-02-11 |title=Big increase in park visitors for December |url=https://www.portlincolntimes.com.au/story/7122561/big-increase-in-park-visitors-for-december/ |access-date=2023-01-16 |website=Port Lincoln Times |language=en-AU}}</ref>
It is a popular location for boating, sailing, swimming, water-skiing, skindiving and wind-surfing, as well as fishing (rock, surf, angling and boat).<ref name=":0">{{Citation|title=UBD street directory Gregory's South Australia and Northern Territory.|date=2013|others=Universal Business Directories Pty. Ltd.|publisher=Universal Publishers|isbn=978-0-7319-2696-1|oclc=829213142}}</ref>
The town is named after the bay formed by the Coffin Bay Peninsula and the mainland, and lies on the southeastern shore of the bay. Oyster farming is conducted in the quiet waters of Coffin Bay.{{citation needed|date=October 2019}}
Coffin Bay is in the [[District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula]] [[Local government in Australia|local government area]], the [[South Australian House of Assembly|state]] [[electoral district of Flinders]] and the [[Australian House of Representatives|federal]] [[Division of Grey]].<ref name="LMV"/>
== History == The indigenous inhabitants of the Coffin Bay area are the [[Nauo people|Nauo]] [[Aboriginal Australians|Aboriginal]] people, who have lived there for tens of thousands of years. Well before the [[British colonisation of South Australia|official colonisation of South Australia]] in 1836, the way of life of the Nauo people had been disrupted by raids carried out by [[seal culling in South Australia|seal hunters]], often to kidnap Nauo women.<ref>{{Cite book |chapter=Nauo (SA) |last=Tindale |first=Norman Barnett |year=1974 |author-link=Norman Tindale |title=Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names |publisher=[[ANU Press|Australian National University Press]] |chapter-url = http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/nauo.htm |page=66 |isbn = 978-0-708-10741-6}}</ref>
British naval explorer [[Matthew Flinders]] named the bay on 16 February 1802 in honour of his friend [[Sir Isaac Coffin, 1st Baronet|Sir Isaac Coffin]], who was Resident Naval Commissioner at [[Sheerness]], where [[HMS Investigator (1801)|HMS ''Investigator'']] was fitted out.<ref name="manning">{{cite web |url=http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/manning/pn/c/c8.htm#coffinB |access-date=2006-05-06 |work=The Manning Index of South Australian History |publisher=[[State Library of South Australia]] |title=Place names of South Australia}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> The same year, [[Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australia|French explorer]] [[Nicolas Baudin]] provided the alternative French name of ''Baie Delambre''.<ref>[http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ Property Location Browser V2] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ |date=12 October 2016 }} ''Government of South Australia, Department of Planning, Transport & [http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ Infrastructure] ''Retrieved 2014-01-01.</ref>
The bay remained uncharted until it was explored in March 1839 by Captain Frederick R. Lees ({{died in|1839}}), in command of the brig ''Nereus''. Lees' thorough charts became a standard reference for mariners until the electronic era.<ref>Lees, Frederick : ''Sailing directions for South Australia'' (Sydney, 1839). Mitchell Library, NSW, Call No DSM/656/L.</ref>{{according to whom|date=December 2017}}
In November 1952, and again in October 1955, the state government surveyed a "shack area" on [[crown land]] from which allotments were available for leasing.<ref name=manning02/> In 1957, the private town of Coffin Bay was laid out by Stanley Germain Morgan on section 132 of the cadastral unit of the [[Hundred of Lake Wangary]].<ref name=manning02/>
In 1966, [[BHP]] opened the [[Coffin Bay Tramway]], between [[Port Lincoln]] and a site {{convert|8|km|0}} south-east of the town, to convey lime sands.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Buckland |first1=J.L. |title=A standard gauge railway in mothballs (Coffin Bay tramway of BHP Co. Ltd.) |journal=Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin |date=August 1977 |volume=28 |issue=478 |pages=184–189 |publisher=[[Australian Railway Historical Society]] |quote=This mineral railway was opened in 1966 to bring lime sands 39 km from Coffin Bay to Proper Bay, near Port Lincoln. The operation was visited by an ARHS SA Div tour on 13 Nov 1976. (Citation details via the nswrail.net website)}}</ref> The tramway was closed in 1989, and the track was removed in 2001.{{citation needed|date=October 2019}}
On 16 October 2003, boundaries created for the locality included the full extent of the [[Coffin Bay Peninsula]] and the land to the east, bounded in the north in part by the channel connecting to [[Kellidie Bay]] and by the Coffin Bay Road, and in the east by the eastern boundary of the [[Hundred of Lake Wangary]]. The locality, which was given the "long established name", includes the private town, the Coffin Bay Shack Site and the Coffin Bay National Park.<ref name="LMV"/><ref name=SAGG-2003/>
The historic former [[Coffin Bay Whaling Site]] at Point Sir Isaac lies within the locality and is listed on the [[South Australian Heritage Register]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://apps.planning.sa.gov.au/HeritageSearch/HeritageItem.aspx?p_heritageno=16608 | title=Former Coffin Bay Whaling Site (designated place of archaeological significance) Coffin Bay National Park | publisher=Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources | work=South Australian Heritage Register | access-date=12 February 2016 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
== See also == * [[Coffin Bay National Park]] * [[Kellidie Bay Conservation Park]] *[[Mount Dutton Bay Conservation Park]]
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.smh.com.au/news/South-Australia/Coffin-Bay/2005/02/17/1108500204205.html Coffin Bay – SMH Travel] *[http://www.coffinbay.net/business.htm Coffin Bay Tourism Association] *[http://coffinbay.net/ CoffinBay.net]
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