What is Spencer Gulf?
[[File:Spencer Gulf.jpg|thumb|260px|Location of Spencer Gulf in Australia]] The '''Spencer Gulf''' is the westernmost of two large inlets on the southern coast of [[Australia]]. It is in the state of [[South Australia]] facing the [[Great Australian Bight]]. The Gulf is 322&nbsp;km (200&nbsp;mi) long and 129&nbsp;km (80&nbsp;mi) wide at its mouth. The western shore of the Gulf is the [[Eyre Peninsula]]. The eastern side is the [[Yorke Peninsula]] which separates it from the smaller [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gulf&#x20;St&#x20;Vincent&oldid=1262809819 Gulf St Vincent]. Its entrance was defined by [[Matthew Flinders]] as a line from [[Cape Catastrophe]] on Eyre Peninsula to [[Cape Spencer (South Australia)|Cape Spencer]] on Yorke Peninsula.<ref name=Flinders> {{cite book | last = Flinders | first = Matthew | authorlink = Matthew Flinders | title = A Voyage to Terra Australis : undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803 in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland Schooner; with an account of the shipwreck of the Porpoise, arrival of the Cumberland at Mauritius, and imprisonment of the commander during six years and a half in that island. | url = http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?pageno=249&fk_files=1486723 | accessdate = 10 January 2015 | edition = Facsimile | year = 1966 | origyear = 1814 | publisher = Libraries Board of South Australia | location = Adelaide; Facsimile reprint of: London : G. and W. Nicol, 1814 ed. In two volumes, with an Atlas (3 volumes) | page = 249 }} </ref> <gallery> Image:Port-Broughton-harbor-0693.jpg|The harbor of [[Port Broughton]] on the Eastern shore of Spencer Gulf Image:Australia.A2010283.0435.250m.jpg|Spencer Gulf seen from one of NASA's Satellites Image:MoontaBayJetty.JPG|Moonta Bay J