Twilight Cove

Twilight Cove is situated at the end of the Baxter Cliffs on the south coast of Western Australia on the Great Australian Bight coastline. It has had other names, including Malbinya.^[1]

The local Aboriginal language for the area (known as Willilambie) was collected by Daisy Bates.^[2] It is 26 km south of Cocklebiddy roadhouse on the Eyre Highway^[3] and is considered a marker as the extent of the Baxter Cliffs,^[4] with Toolinna Cove the other.

Like most locations along the southern coast of Western Australia it is susceptible to king waves.^[5]

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.^[6][7][8] On 31 August 1896, the Swift struck a rock and was wrecked.^[9][10] The crews of all three vessels survived.

Notes

1. "Our Inheritance in the East". The Daily News. Vol. XI, no. 5, 751. Western Australia. 12 September 1893. p. 3. Retrieved 4 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
2. Bates, Daisy (31 July 2012), Section XII, 2A, 1a - Language: grammar and vocabularies: outline of grammar and vocabularies from Israelite Bay and Eucla district, retrieved 16 January 2018 and Maude, Henry (31 July 2012), Section XII, 2A, 2 - Language: grammar and vocabularies; outline of grammar and vocabularies from Israelite Bay and Eucla district, retrieved 16 January 2018
3. page 308 of Murray, Ian; Hercock, Marion; Murray, Ian; Hercock, Marion (2008), Where on the coast is that?, Hesperian Press, ISBN 978-0-85905-452-2
4. spelio (1965), Twilight Cove S of Cocklebiddy, walking towards the Baxter Cliffs, on the Nullarbor WA, retrieved 4 March 2017
5. "Fisherman is Swept Off Rocks at Twilight Cove". Coolgardie Miner. Vol. IX, no. 275. Western Australia. 15 January 1953. p. 1. Retrieved 4 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
6. "Twilight | Maritime Archaeology Databases".
7. "Wreck at Twilight Cove". Western Mail. Vol. XXXVII, no. 1, 885. Western Australia. 9 February 1922. p. 5. Retrieved 4 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
8. "Bunyip | Maritime Archaeology Databases".
9. "Swift | Maritime Archaeology Databases".
10. The wreck of the schooner Swift at Twilight Cove, W.A, 1950, retrieved 4 March 2017

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