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Great Australian Bight

oceanic bight off the central and western portions of the southern coastline of mainland Australia
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Summary

Great Australian Bight is a bay[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of bay entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,739 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Australia[3]
  • Country: Australia[4]
  • Instance of: bight[5]
  • Inflows: Gellibrand River[6], Johanna River[7], Curdies River[8]
  • Basin country: Australia[9]
  • Part of: Indian Ocean[10]
  • Commons category: Great Australian Bight[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Great Australian Bight[12]
  • Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[13], Limits of Oceans and Seas, 3rd edition[14], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[15], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[16], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[17]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[18]

Why It Matters

Great Australian Bight has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 42 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

Australia

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14d ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Australia
    Coordinate location → {'lat': -33, 'lon': 130}
    Sitelink count → 70
    Country → Australia
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Openstreetmap relation id: 9425816"
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