Twilight Cove is situated at the end of the
Baxter Cliffs on the
south coast of Western Australia
The south coast of Western Australia comprises the Western Australian coastline from Cape Leeuwin to Eucla. This is a distance of approximately , fronting the Great Australian Bight and the Southern Ocean.
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on the
Great Australian Bight
The Great Australian Bight is a large oceanic bight (geography), bight, or open bay, off the central and western portions of the southern Coast, coastline of mainland Australia.
There are two definitions for its extent—one by the Internation ...
coastline. It has had other names, including ''Malbinya''.
The local Aboriginal language for the area (known as Willilambie) was collected by
Daisy Bates.
It is 26 km south of
Cocklebiddy roadhouse on the
Eyre Highway
Eyre Highway is a highway linking Western Australia and South Australia via the Nullarbor Plain. Signed as National Highways 1 and A1, it forms part of Highway 1 (Australia), Highway 1 and the National Highway (Australia), Australian Nat ...
and is considered a marker as the extent of the Baxter Cliffs, with
Toolinna Cove
Toolinna Cove is a cove on the south coast of Western Australia. It is a sea-cove along the Baxter Cliffs at the western end of the Great Australian Bight, in Nuytsland Nature Reserve. It is the only place between Point Culver and Twilight Cove ...
the other.
Like most locations along the southern coast of Western Australia it is susceptible to
king waves.
The cove has been the location of a number of shipwrecks. The ''Twilight'' (after which it is named) and the ''Bunyip'' were swept ashore during a storm on 24 May 1877. Both had been involved in transporting materials for the construction of a telegraph line. On 31 August 1896, the ''Swift'' struck a rock and was wrecked.
The crews of all three vessels survived.
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Coves of Australia
Nuytsland Nature Reserve
Great Australian Bight
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