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	For school projects: About the Great Australian Bight
		The Great Australian Bight is a very large bight (or bend in the coast that forms an open bay) on the southern edge of the Australian continent.
		The Australian sea lions that live in the Bight help to bridge the gap between those that live on the east coast and those that live on the west coast.
		In fact, the Great Australian Bight has some of the highest levels of marine diversity (which means the variety of plants and animals) and endemism (which means "occurring nowhere else in the world") in Australia.
	www.deh.gov.au /coasts/mpa/gab/about.html (2035 words)

	Great Australian Bight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Australian Bight south of the Nullarbor.
		It is probably best noted for the large number of sharks that frequent its coastal waters, as well as the increasing numbers of southern right whales that migrate within the region.
		Great Australian Bight Marine Park - Eyre Peninsula - the South Australian portion of the park
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Australian_Bight (432 words)

	Encyclopedia: Great Australian Bight
		In geography, a bight is a bend or curve in the coastline, sometimes resulting in a wide open bay.
		bight, or open bay, encompassing an area of the The Southern Ocean is the body of water encircling the continent of Antarctica.
		Much of the Bight lies due south of the expansive The Nullarbor Plain is the vast area of flat, almost treeless, arid or semi-arid country immediately north of the Great Australian Bight.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Great-Australian-Bight (1252 words)

	Dingo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A study of dingo mitochondrial DNA published in 2004 places their arrival at around 4000 BC, and suggests that only one small group may be the ancestors of all modern dingos.
		It would eventually stretch 8500 kilometres; from near Toowoomba through thousands of miles of arid country to the Great Australian Bight and be (at that time) the longest man-made structure in the world.
		By the early 1990s, about a third of all wild Dingos in the south-east of the continent were hybrids, and although the process of interbreeding is less advanced in more remote areas, the extinction of the subspecies in the wild is considered inevitable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dingo (1055 words)

	AMCS - Paper - Great Australian Bight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The unstated goal of the Plan appears to be to manage for the multiple use of the Great Australian Bight region while ensuring that potential commercial exploitation of resources and major pollution events and continued smaller pollution occurrences do not impact on the unique conservation values of the coast and marine environment.
		Of primary concern to conservation goals in the Great Australian Bight is the lack of baseline knowledge of ecology and biology.
		While the Australian Marine Conservation Society welcomes the declaration as a marine protected area of a substantial portion of the Great Australian Bight region, we are concerned that the zonings and proposed Plan of Management only go some way towards protecting the significant marine biodiversity of the region and its high conservation values.
	www.amcs.org.au /news/papers/gabight.htm (2689 words)

	Places Of The World (G-I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Great Australian Bight is a broad bay in south Australia notorious for its storms.
		The Great Bear Lake is a lake in the Arctic Circle in the Northwest Territories, Canada.
		The Great Rift Valley is the longest split in the earth's surface extending 8000km from the Dead Sea to Mozambique.
	www.ii.uj.edu.pl /~artur/enc/G3.htm (5792 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wild Down Under - Great Australian Bight
		The arc of the Great Australian Bight is literally like a 'bite' taken out of the southern shore of Australia.
		Australian sea lions live throughout the Great Australian Bight and because they inhabit the marine equivalent of a desert these species have evolved a bizarre breeding strategy in order to survive.
		Camouflage is their only defence and they blend in with the seaweeds of the Great Australian Bight so well that most predators - as well as scuba divers - can pass close without noticing them.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/programmes/tv/wilddownunder/virtual11.shtml (621 words)

	The demersal trawl resources of the Great Australian Bight as indicated by the fishing operations of the stern trawlers ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The demersal trawl resources of the Great Australian Bight as indicated by the fishing operations of the stern trawlers Othello, Orsino and Cassio in the period 19.11.77 to 28.5.79 - Department of Fisheries, Western Australia, Fish for the Future
		The demersal trawl resources of the Great Australian Bight as indicated by the fishing operations of the stern trawlers Othello, Orsino and Cassio in the period 19.11.77 to 28.5.79
		Bight red fish Centroberyx gerradi, Chinaman leatherjacket Nelusetta ayraudi, jackass morwong Nemadactylus macropterus, and Jack mackerel Trachurus declivis were found to be the most economically important species, with a value exceeding 50 per cent of the total catch.
	www.fish.wa.gov.au /res/broc/frr/frr086/summary.html (275 words)

	Western Australia southern region travel, holidays tours and vacations
		A region that starts at the South Australian border and follows the coastline of the Great Australian Bight westwards before taking in the south west coastline and finishing at the Indian Ocean in the west.
		This is a diverse area with long stretches of monotonous flat semi-desert where the Eyre Highway follows the southern edge of the Nullabour Plain and culminating in the very attractive coastal, agricultural and tall timber forests in the south west corner of the state.
		- this is the route of the Eyre Highway as it parallels the Great Australian Bight.
	www.austtravel.com.au /wa_southern.htm (890 words)

	Great Australian Bight Marine Park (Commonwealth Waters)
		The Great Australian Bight Marine Park (Commonwealth Waters) is in the Great Australian Bight stretching from 200 km west of Ceduna in South Australia following the coast to the Western Australian border.
		Directly adjacent to the South Australian Marine Park is the Marine Mammal Protection Zone that extends from three nautical miles to approximately 12 nautical miles offshore.
		To the west of the Head of Bight is the Benthic Protection Zone, a 20 nautical mile-wide representative strip of the ocean floor extending 200 nautical miles from the edge of the State Park (at three nautical miles) directly south to the edge of the Exclusive Economic Zone of Australia.
	www.deh.gov.au /coasts/mpa/gab (355 words)

	Deepwater flathead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the western-central area of the Great Australian Bight, spawning activity peaks in late summer.
		Female deepwater flathead as large as 94 cm total length and 4 kg have been caught in the Great Australian Bight, while the largest males caught were 62 cm and 1.5–2 kg.
		However, Bight redfish is an unavoidable bycatch of target fishing for deepwater flathead and the annual catch of Bight redfish is currently within the range of sustainable yield estimates.
	adl.brs.gov.au /fishstats/atlas/37296002.cfm (1143 words)

	Programs of the first phase of the NHT: Marine Species Protection Program Completed Projects: Ecology and Behaviour of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Head of the Bight represents one of the most significant and consistent aggregation and calving areas for the Southern Right whale in Australian waters, with whales consistently sighted there between June and October (See Map of SRW Migrations).
		This has led to the South Australian Government establishing the 'Head of Bight whale Sanctuary' and the larger 'Great Australian Bight Marine Park' within State and Commonwealth waters, ensuring the protection of this important whale habitat.
		The NHT is jointly administered by the Australian Government departments of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and the Environment and Heritage
	www.nht.gov.au /nht1/programs/mspp/srwecology.html (671 words)

	Great Australian Bight on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Vertical and horizontal movements of southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii) in the Great Australian Bight observed with ultrasonic telemetry.(Statistical Data Included)
		When it's a marine reserve declared by an Australian government and trumpeted as a marine conservation initiative...
		Artificial habitats for fisheries enhancements in the Australian region.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/g/greata1us.asp (309 words)

	Great Australian Bight -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The coast was later first accurately charted by the English explorer Captain (British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814)) Matthew Flinders in 1802, during his (Traveling around something (by ship or plane)) circumnavigation of the Australian (One of the large landmasses of the earth) continent.
		A later land-based survey was accomplished by (Click link for more info and facts about Edward John Eyre) Edward John Eyre.
		A number of settlements exist along the coastline of the Bight, such as (Click link for more info and facts about Ceduna) Ceduna.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gr/great_australian_bight.htm (274 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Great Australian Bight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Last year, the Western Australian coroner recommended that beacons be installed on all commercial vessels after two fishermen died while sailing between Esperance and Eucla in the Great Australian Bight.
		The 100-metre long trawler is being brought to Australia from Europe to trawl for migratory fish in the Great Australian Bight and around the south-east coast.
		Some Australian fishermen have voiced dismay about what they claim would be the destruction of fish stocks by such a huge vessel, which operates three factories on board.
	geography.surfwax.com /files/Great_Australian_Bight.html (1777 words)

	Great Australian Bight--Cenozoic Cool-Water Carbonates1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Seismic stratigraphic analysis of the offshore succession in the western GAB shows that the Eucla basin contains a discontinuous record of predominantly cool-water carbonate sedimentation throughout the Cenozoic, and that deposition was controlled by the interaction between sea level fluctuations and tectonic and paleo-oceanographic processes.
		We conclude that in the western Great Australian Bight, paleo-oceanographic variations produced seismic geometries that are strikingly different depending on sea-surface temperature.
		In the case of these ramps, organic growth potential apparently was distributed over a much greater water depth range and, accordingly, over a much broader area compared with the warmer water platform where the reefs that formed the platform rim concentrated organic growth potential into a narrow zone close to sea level.
	www.ga.gov.au /odp/publications/182_IR/chap_02/c2_8.htm (297 words)

	Great Australian Bight Trawl Fishery Management Area Boundaries
		Great Australian Bight Trawl Fishery extent and boundaries, as supplied by the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA).
		The Great Australian Bight Trawl Fishery (GABTF) extends from Cape Leeuwin, Western Australia, to Cape Jervis near Kangaroo Island, South Australia.
		The data was supplied under agreement with the Australian Fisheries Management Authority to generate maps for the purposes of marine planning.
	www.marine.csiro.au /nddq/ndd_search.Browse_Citation?txtSession=143 (204 words)

	Australia landforms by World Atlas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Murray rises in the Australian Alps and flows 1,200 miles (1,930 km) to the Spencer Gulf, directly west of Adelaide.
		Along the southern coastline on the Great Australian Bight, (Bight: a bend or curve in the shoreline) the local terrain is unparalleled.
		Similar to the Great Sandy Desert, it has large areas of red sand plains, scrub vegetation and a few scattered hills.
	www.worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/oceania/aussnewld.htm (1079 words)

	Great Australian Bight--Cenozoic Cool-Water Carbonates1
		Seismic images of the continental margin in the western Great Australian Bight reveal the internal anatomy of a long-lived Cenozoic cool-water carbonate shelf.
		As Australia drifted northward during the Cenozoic, the Great Australian Bight moved from high to middle latitudes, and the regional oceanographic regime remained cool water largely because of coeval development of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in the evolving Southern Ocean.
		The western Great Australian Bight carbonate platform is an excellent modern analog for the mesoscale structure of cool-water platforms in the older geologic record.
	www-odp.tamu.edu /publications/182_IR/chap_02/c2_.htm (473 words)

	Fugro MCS - Great Australian Bight
		The Great Australian Bight sits on the southern margin of Australia and remains one of the least explored passive margins in the world.
		The Australian Government has released in the 2003 bidding round one block available for license.
		The Great Australian Bight encompasses a number of basins along the southern margins of Western Australia and South Australia, and is roughly a 1000 km in length.
	www.seismicaustralia.com.au /Australia/GAB.htm (266 words)

	Great Australian Bight Tourism Eyre Peninsula
		The Great Australian Bight, the largest indentation on the Australian coast, is said to be the longest line of seacliffs in the world.
		The white coloured rock near the base of the cliffs is known to geologists as Wilson Bluff Limestone and it was formed on the seabed between 38 and 42 million years ago.
		It also stated that the boundary between the Bight and Bass Strait was a line from Cape Otway, in Victoria, through King Island to Cape Grim, Tasmania.
	www.tep.com.au /region/great_aust_bight.htm (180 words)

	Walkabout - Nullarbor
		It was the South Australian government surveyor E. Delisser who, in 1867 while surveying the border between South Australia and Western Australia, gave the area the name Nullarbor from the Latin words 'nullus arbor' meaning 'no trees'.
		It actually defines a large area which is about 750 km from east to west and which runs between the Great Australian Bight and the edges of the Great Victoria Desert.
		It is worth contemplating, as you stand 100 m above the Southern Ocean, that the Great Australian Bight is recognised as the largest indentation in the Australian coastline and that these dramatic cliffs are reputed to be the longest cliff face in the world.
	www.walkabout.com.au /fairfax/locations/SANullarbor.shtml (739 words)

	ODP Leg 182 Great Australian Bight
		The principal objectives of ODP Leg 182 were to investigate the evolution of the Cenozoic cool-water carbonate margin of the Western Great Australian Bight and produce a more detailed understanding of global environmental changes in high to mid-latitude settings (see Leg 182 Scientific Prospectus).
		Cool-water carbonates are deposited in sea-water temperatures of less than 20°C. Carbonates began accumulating on the southern Australian divergent passive continental margin during the Eocene and continued throughout the Cenozoic depositing an almost 1 km thick carbonate succession in the Eucla basin.
		However, changes in sediment budget, marine-currents and relative sea-level fluctuations are not mutually exclusive and the gamma-ray cycles may record a polygenetic signature of environmental changes.
	www.ldeo.columbia.edu /BRG/ODP/ODP/LEG_SUMM/182/leg182.html (6714 words)

	CSIRO - Bottom of the bight yields bizarre life
		Australian scientists have found biological 'deserts' and coral gardens filled with colourful sea creatures while exploring the sea floor of the Great Australian Bight.
		Scientists from CSIRO, Environment Australia and the Australian Geological Survey Organisation battled heavy swells to carry out their investigations using dredges, sediment corers and a deep submergence video camera.
		A major aim of this expedition was to find sites where warm fluids leak out from rocks deep under the sea floor to form mineral deposits and host accumulations of strange chemosynthetic animals.
	www.csiro.au /index.asp?type=mediaRelease&id=Prbightback (504 words)

	Head of the Bight - Nullarbor Travel Guide Australia
		The Head of Bight is located 78 kilometres west of Yalata and 20 kilometres to the east of Nullarbor Roadhouse.
		The Head of Bight is approached by a sealed road and attached to the car park is a comfortable undercover picnic area for travellers.
		The Head of Bight picnic area also doubles as an education facility with a number of display boards displaying the habits, behaviours and other scientific curiosities relating to the Southern Right Whale.
	www.nullarbornet.com.au /towns/headBight.html (612 words)

	2002 Total Solar Eclipse - Viewing on the Water (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Great Australian Bight is a cloudy place in December, though the closer one moves toward landfall on the eclipse track, the better the weather prospects become (Figure 21).
		Examination of satellite imagery for 1999 and 2000 suggests that the shipboard chances for a view of the sun on the Australian Bight are slightly lower or equal to that at an inland site in Australia.
		Wave heights are more variable in the Great Australian Bight, reflecting the more stormy nature of weather systems in the region.
	sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov /eclipse/SEmono/TSE2002/TSE2002txt/T02weather03.html (467 words)

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