Rosetta sunset
Sunset over the Bluff in Encounter Bay, South Australia.
On 8 Apr 1802 this bay was the meeting place of two great mariners. Matthew Flinders, in the 'Investigator' and Nicholas Baudin on the 'Le Geographe'.
Flinders named this area Encounter Bay after that chance meeting.
The Bluff (Rosetta Head) was the site of a whaling station, with its peak used as a look-out point to locate whales. The station was established in 1837 and operated until the early 1860s. The wharf, an adjacent sea wall and the connecting road were completed in 1856 by the SA Government to assist whaling industry activity. The wharf was known as the "Lilliputian Jetty" due to its relatively small size, i.e. 12.7 metres (42 feet) wide by 4.6 metres (15 feet) deep. A mine was established on Rosetta Head in 1863 to search for copper and other minerals until the abandonment of the venture in 1866. A tablet set into a granite boulder located near Rosetta Head's summit was unveiled on 8 April 1902 by the Governor of South Australia, The Right Honourable Hallam, Baron Tennyson, KCMG to commemorate the centenary of the meeting of the European explorers, Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin, in nearby waters.
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Rosetta sunset
Sunset over the Bluff in Encounter Bay, South Australia.
On 8 Apr 1802 this bay was the meeting place of two great mariners. Matthew Flinders, in the 'Investigator' and Nicholas Baudin on the 'Le Geographe'.
Flinders named this area Encounter Bay after that chance meeting.
The Bluff (Rosetta Head) was the site of a whaling station, with its peak used as a look-out point to locate whales. The station was established in 1837 and operated until the early 1860s. The wharf, an adjacent sea wall and the connecting road were completed in 1856 by the SA Government to assist whaling industry activity. The wharf was known as the "Lilliputian Jetty" due to its relatively small size, i.e. 12.7 metres (42 feet) wide by 4.6 metres (15 feet) deep. A mine was established on Rosetta Head in 1863 to search for copper and other minerals until the abandonment of the venture in 1866. A tablet set into a granite boulder located near Rosetta Head's summit was unveiled on 8 April 1902 by the Governor of South Australia, The Right Honourable Hallam, Baron Tennyson, KCMG to commemorate the centenary of the meeting of the European explorers, Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin, in nearby waters.
Info courtesy of Wiki