Rossiter Bay is on the southern coast of

Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...

, in the

Cape Le Grand National Park Cape Le Grand National Park is a national park in Western Australia, south-east of Perth and east of Esperance. The park covers an area of The area is an ancient landscape which has been above sea level for well over 200 million years and ...

east of Esperance. The bay is noted as the place that the explorer

Edward John Eyre Edward John Eyre (5 August 181530 November 1901) was an English land explorer of the Australian continent, colonial administrator, and Governor of Jamaica. Early life Eyre was born in Whipsnade, Bedfordshire, shortly before his family moved to ...

and his Aboriginal companion Wylie met the crew of the French whaling ship ''Mississippi'' in June 1841 after they had completed a crossing of the

Nullarbor Plain The Nullarbor Plain ( ; Latin: feminine of , 'no', and , 'tree') is part of the area of flat, almost treeless, arid or semi-arid country of southern Australia, located on the Great Australian Bight coast with the Great Victoria Desert to its ...

. It is named for Captain Thomas Rossiter, the Englishman who commanded the ''Mississippi''.Short, Andrew D. (2004)
''Beaches of the Western Australian Coast: Eucla to Roebuck Bay''
p. 93. Sidney University Press. The bay contains a long, curving sandy beach, which is often covered with dry seagrass. To the west lies

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, which was named by

Matthew Flinders Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was a British navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of mainland Australia, then called New Holland. He is also credited as being the first person to u ...

. The bay is accessible by conventional vehicle along a road ending in a carpark. That point is the

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for the Le Grand Coastal Trail.

References

Bays of Western Australia Goldfields-Esperance {{WesternAustralia-geo-stub

See also

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