Great Australian Bight

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Great Australian Bight

A wide bay of the Indian Ocean on the southern coast of Australia. Much of the coastline consists of high cliffs along the southern edge of the Nullarbor Plain.
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Great Australian Bight

n
(Placename) a wide bay of the Indian Ocean, in S Australia, extending from Cape Pasley to the Eyre Peninsula: notorious for storms
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Great′ Austral′ian Bight′


n.
a wide bay in S Australia.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.Great Australian Bight - a wide bay of the Indian Ocean in southern Australia; notorious for storms
Australia, Commonwealth of Australia - a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony
Australia - the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean
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