Twilight Cove is situated at the end of the

Baxter Cliffs The Baxter Cliffs is a long stretch of coastal cliff on the south coast of Western Australia. The Baxter Cliffs are up to 80 metres high and extend for almost 200 kilometres along the coast, from Point Culver in the west, which marks the no ...

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. Components The Bureau of Meteorology ...

on the

Great Australian Bight The Great Australian Bight is a large oceanic bight, or open bay, off the central and western portions of the southern coastline of mainland Australia. Extent Two definitions of the extent are in use – one used by the International Hydrog ...

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 and the Australian National Highway network linking Perth and Adelaide. It ...

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 Cov ...

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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