Memory Cove

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use Australian English|date=March 2014}} {{Infobox body of water | name = Memory Cove | image = | caption = | pushpin_map = Australia South Australia | pushpin_map_alt = | pushpin_relief = 1 | pushpin_map_caption = Location in [[South Australia]] | image_bathymetry = | caption_bathymetry = | location = [[Eyre Peninsula]], South Australia | coords = {{coord|34|57|37|S|135|59|29|E|type:waterbody_region:AU_region:AU-SA|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_footnotes = <ref name=gazateer>{{Gazetteer of Australia|name=Memory Cove (SA)|feature=SA0044191}}</ref> | type = [[Bay (aquatic)|Bay]] | inflow = | outflow = | catchment = | basin_countries = Australia | length = | width = | area = | depth = | max-depth = | volume = | residence_time = | salinity = | shore = | frozen = | islands = | trenches = | benches = | cities = }} '''Memory Cove''' is a [[bay]] located on the East coast of [[Jussieu Peninsula]] on [[Eyre Peninsula]] in [[South Australia]] approximately {{convert|15|km|mi}} South-East of [[Port Lincoln]].

It is one of the natural features named by [[Matthew Flinders]] in memory of the eight crew who were lost on a [[cutter (boat)|cutter]] that capsized sometime after being launched from [[HMS Investigator (1798)|HM Sloop ''Investigator'']] to search for water on 21 February 1802.<ref>{{cite web|title= Encounter 1802-2002: Flinders' voyage; Difficulties and disasters|url= http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/encounter/flinders/disasters.htm|publisher=State Library of South Australia|access-date=15 February 2014}}</ref><ref name="MCWPA">{{cite web|title=Memory Cove Wilderness Protection Area Management Plan,|url=http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/files/0c625c92-46c3-46e0-b564-9e4f00b1bca2/PARKS_PDFS_MEMORYCOVE_WPA_MP.pdf.|publisher=Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources|access-date=26 January 2014|pages=1|year=2005}}</ref>

Since 2004, the coastline enclosing the bay has been part of the [[Memory Cove Wilderness Protection Area]].<ref name="MCWPA" />

[[File:Memory Cove with Sailing Yacht Arriba at anchor.jpg|thumb|Memory Cove with Sailing Yacht Arriba at anchor]]

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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20140316080721/http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/parks/Find_a_Park/Browse_by_region/Eyre_Peninsula/Lincoln_National_Park/Memory_Cove_Wilderness_Protection_Area/ Memory Cove Wilderness Protection Area homepage]

[[Category:Bays of South Australia]] [[Category:Eyre Peninsula]] [[Category:Spencer Gulf]] [[Category:Coves of Australia]]