Israelite Bay Western Australia | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 33°36′36″S 123°52′34″E / 33.61°S 123.876°E | ||||||||||||||
Population | 0 (SAL 2016)[1][2] | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 6452 | ||||||||||||||
Area | 2,098.5 km2 (810.2 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
LGA(s) | Shire of Esperance | ||||||||||||||
State electorate(s) | Roe | ||||||||||||||
Federal division(s) | O'Connor | ||||||||||||||
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Israelite Bay is a bay and locality of the Shire of Esperance in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, located along the Southern Ocean. Except for a small strip in the north-west of the locality, Israelite Bay is completely taken up by the Nuytsland Nature Reserve.[3][4]
Israelite Bay lies east of Esperance and the Cape Arid National Park, within the Nuytsland Nature Reserve and the Great Australian Bight.[5] Point Malcolm is about 25 km (16 mi) west of Israelite Bay,[6] and there is a long sandy beach there.[7]
Climate data was recorded at Israelite Bay from 1885 to 1927, and it is frequently mentioned in Bureau of Meteorology weather reports as a geographical marker.[8]
It was the site of a significant telegraph station in the early 1900s.[9][10] It was also a location serviced by the W.A. Government State Steamship Service, the South Coast Service, in the early 1900s.[11]
The Eastern Group, the eastern-most islands of the Recherche Archipelago, identified by Matthew Flinders in January 1802,[12] is offshore of Israelite Bay.[13]