Anxious Bay
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{{Infobox body of water
| name = Anxious Bay
| image = 12 Venus Bay 24.JPG
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| caption = View of Anxious Bay from mouth of Venus Bay
| pushpin_map = Australia South Australia
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| location = Eyre Peninsula, South Australia
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| coordinates_footnotes = {{Gazetteer of Australia|name=Anxious Bay |feature= SA0001690}}
| type = Bay
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| basin_countries = Australia
| length = {{convert|66|km|abbr=on}}.{{Citation | author1=South Australia. Department of Marine and Harbors | title=The Waters of South Australia a series of charts, sailing notes and coastal photographs | publication-date=1985 | publisher=Dept. of Marine and Harbors, South Australia | pages= Chart 39|isbn=978-0-7243-7603-2 }}
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| islands = Waldegrave Island
Jones Island
Unnamed island, Baird Bay
| islands_category = Islands of South Australia
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Anxious Bay is a bay in the Australian state of South Australia located on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula about {{convert|275|km|abbr=off}} west north-west of Adelaide. It was named by Matthew Flinders on 21 February 1802. It is one of four ‘historic bays' located on the South Australian coast.
Extent & description
Anxious Bay lies between Cape Radstock and Cape Finniss on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula. Anxious Bay itself is the entry point for the following minor coastal inlets from west to east – Baird Bay and Venus Bay.{{cite enroute|175|2017|178}}
It is one of four bays on the South Australian coast considered by the Australian government to be a 'historic bay' under the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973 and proclaimed as such in 1987 and again in 2006 with the result that the mouth of the bay is on the territorial seas baseline and the waters within the bay are internal waters as per the definition used in United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.{{cite web|title=Article 8 Internal waters, Part II, UN Convention on the Law of the Sea|url=https://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/part2.htm|publisher=United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea|access-date=29 July 2014}}{{cite web|title=EXPLANATORY STATEMENT Issued by the authority of the Attorney-General, Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973, Seas and Submerged Lands (Historic Bays) Proclamation 2006|url=http://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F2006L00526/Explanatory%20Statement/Text|publisher=Commonwealth of Australia|access-date=29 July 2014}}
European discovery
Matthew Flinders named Anxious Bay on 11 February 1802.{{cite Q |Q133875246 |mode=cs1 |last=Flinders |first=Matthew |author-link=Matthew Flinders |orig-year=1814 |page=222 }}
Ports and other settlements
Settlements on its shores include Venus Bay and Baird Bay. A third settlement, Port Kenny is accessible via the body of water known as Venus Bay. Both the settlements of Venus Bay and Port Kenny have port infrastructure consisting of jetties that are accessible via Venus Bay.
Economic use
As of 2013, an area within the southern end of the bay located to the immediate north of Waldegrave Island has been zoned under state planning legislation for aquaculture.{{cite web |title=Development Plan – Land Not Within a Council Area (Coastal Waters) |url=http://www.dpti.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/249981/Land_Not_Within_a_Council_Area_Coastal_Waters_Development_Plan.pdf |publisher=Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (DPTI) |date=2013 |access-date=7 January 2016 |pages=21, 54 & 59 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051545/http://www.dpti.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/249981/Land_Not_Within_a_Council_Area_Coastal_Waters_Development_Plan.pdf |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}
Protected areas
Protected areas located within and adjoining the bay's extent include:
- Conservation parks – Baird Bay Islands, Lake Newland, Venus Bay and Waldegrave Islands.{{cite book|title=Lake Newland Conservation Park Management Plan|date=2003|publisher=Department of Environment and Heritage, South Australia|location=Adelaide|isbn=0-7590-1066-8|page=3|url=http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/files/6506aa51-fdc2-4a3e-959d-9e4f00b1aecf/PARKS_PDFS_LAKE_NEWLAND_MP.pdf|access-date=30 July 2014}}{{cite book|title=Venus Bay Conservation Park Management Plan|date=2003|publisher=Department of Environment and Heritage, South Australia|location=Adelaide|isbn=1-9210-1895-X|page=8|url=http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/files/9dc4644a-6ada-4a4c-a4de-9e4f00b222ce/VENUS_BAY_MP.pdf|access-date=30 July 2014}}{{cite book|title=Island Parks of Western Eyre Peninsula Management Plan|date=2006|publisher=Department of Environment and Heritage, South Australia|location=Adelaide|isbn=1-9212-3818-6|pages=4–5|url=http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/files/570dd7a4-2986-4563-ae90-9e4f00b22af4/WESTEYRE_IP.pdf|access-date=30 July 2014}}
- Marine parks – West Coast Bays Marine Park.{{cite web|title= West Coast Bays Marine Park Management plan summary|url= http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/files/58c0f500-efcf-437d-a6a2-a117009dc7c3/mp-gen-3westcoastbays-managementplan.pdf |publisher=Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources|access-date=30 July 2014|page=26 of 26}}
See also
References
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{{Eyre Peninsula}}
{{Bays of South Australia|state=autocollapse}}
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