What is the Eyre Peninsula known for?
The Eyre Peninsula in South Australia is known for seafood, including tuna, oysters and abalone, along with wild coastlines and wildlife encounters with sea lions and sharks.
Port Lincoln, on the peninsula's southern coast, is the home of Australia's southern bluefin tuna farming industry. Coffin Bay is famous for its oysters, which visitors can taste straight from the water.
Wildlife tours let visitors swim with sea lions at Baird Bay and cage dive with great white sharks at the Neptune Islands, the only place in Australia where this is permitted.
Parks and coast
Lincoln National Park and Coffin Bay National Park protect cliffs, dunes and beaches. Whalers Way offers dramatic coastal scenery.
The peninsula is named after explorer Edward John Eyre, who crossed it in 1840 and 1841.
Its west coast faces the Great Australian Bight.
Small towns such as Streaky Bay, Ceduna, Elliston and Tumby Bay offer fishing, camping and seafood, and the region is a long road trip from Adelaide.
Did You Know?
Port Lincoln celebrates its fishing industry with Tunarama, a festival held over the Australia Day long weekend.