Information AboutSpencer Gulf |
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Spencer Gulf (which is often erroneously called Spencer's Gulf) was discovered by the explorer Matthew Flinders in 1802 . He named it after George John Spencer , the 2nd Earl Spencer , an ancestor of Diana, Princess Of Wales . The inlet was named by Nicholas Baudin as the Golfe Bonaparte at roughly the same time as Flinders, but the name did not catch (others, like the Fleurieu Peninsula , did). The area was First Explored on land by Edward John Eyre in 1839 and 1840-41. Settlement of the shores of the Gulf began in the late 1840s. Geologically, Spencer Gulf is a Graben . |
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