Head of the Bight

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Head of the Bight (also called Head of Bight) is a bay located in South Australia at the most northern extent of the Great Australian Bight.

Flora and fauna

=Southern right whale=

It is one of two locations on Australia's south coast where southern right whales come to calve during their winter migration,{{Cite web |url=http://sawhalecentre.com.au/head_of_the_bight.html |title=Head of the Bight South Australian Whale Centre Victor Harbor Fleurieu Peninsula |access-date=5 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130409061915/http://sawhalecentre.com.au/head_of_the_bight.html |archive-date=9 April 2013 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.ceduna.net/page.aspx?u=514|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321093820/http://www.ceduna.net/page.aspx?u=514|title=Ceduna Business & Tourism Association - Head of the Bight|archive-date=21 March 2012|url-status=dead|access-date=5 March 2012}} the other being located off of Point Anne in Western Australia's Fitzgerald River National Park.{{Citation | author1=Reid, Elizabeth | author2=Mawson Graduate Centre for Environmental Studies (University of Adelaide) | title=Whale watchers of the head of the Bight: a 1995 visitor profile and implications for management | year=1996 | publication-date=1996 | publisher=Mawson Graduate Centre for Environmental Studies, University of Adelaide | isbn=978-0-86396-439-8}}{{Citation | author1=Pirzl, Rebecca | author2=Burnell, Stephen R | title=Population biology of southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) at Head of Bight, South Australia in 2004 | publication-date=2005 | publisher=s.n. | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/159771477 | accessdate=5 March 2012}}{{Citation | author1=Burnell, Stephen R | author2=Pirzl, Rebecca | author3=Eubalaena | title=Ecology and behaviour of southern right whales: Head of Bight, South Australia, 2001 | publication-date=2002 | publisher=Eubalaena| url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/159770981 | accessdate=5 March 2012}}

Protected area status

The waters within the Head of the Bight are located within the Far West Coast Marine Park.{{cite web|title=Far West Coast Marine Park Management Plan|url=http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/files/775d4df7-c35a-4e04-a510-a1170099e60c/mp-gen-1farwestcoast-managementplan.pdf|publisher=Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources|accessdate=1 March 2015|page=26|date=2012}} The land around Head of the Bight is part of Yalata Indigenous Protected Area.

Notes

External links

{{cite web|url=http://www.southaustralia.com/info.aspx?id=9001985|title=Whale Watching At Head Of Bight|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320220353/https://southaustralia.com/info.aspx?id=9001985|archive-date=20 March 2012|access-date=1 March 2015|url-status=live}} -- official government tourism site

Category:Bays of South Australia

Category:Coastline of South Australia

Category:Great Australian Bight