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PRONUNCIATION OF SPENCER GULF

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SPENCER GULF

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Spencer Gulf is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SPENCER GULF MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Spencer Gulf

Spencer Gulf

The Spencer Gulf is the westernmost of two large inlets on the southern coast of Australia, in the state of South Australia, facing the Great Australian Bight. The Gulf is 322 km long and 129 km wide at its mouth. The western shore of the Gulf is the Eyre Peninsula, while the eastern side is the Yorke Peninsula, which separates it from the smaller Gulf St Vincent. Its entrance was defined by Matthew Flinders as a line from Cape Catastrophe on Eyre Peninsula to Cape Spencer on Yorke Peninsula. The largest towns on the gulf are Port Lincoln, Whyalla, Port Pirie, and Port Augusta. Smaller towns on the gulf include Tumby Bay, Port Neill, Arno Bay, Cowell, Port Germein, Port Broughton, Wallaroo, Port Hughes and Port Victoria.

Definition of Spencer Gulf in the English dictionary

The definition of Spencer Gulf in the dictionary is an inlet of the Indian Ocean in S Australia, between the Eyre and Yorke Peninsulas. Length: about 320 km. Greatest width: about 145 km.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SPENCER GULF

Spengler
Spenser
Spenserian
Spenserian sonnet
Spenserian stanza

WORDS THAT END LIKE SPENCER GULF

Arabian Gulf
Dvina Gulf
Hauraki Gulf
Joseph Bonaparte Gulf
Leyte Gulf
Lingayen Gulf
Pagasetic Gulf
Persian Gulf
Saronic Gulf
the Gulf
Van Diemen Gulf

Synonyms and antonyms of Spencer Gulf in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Spencer Gulf» into 25 languages

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Find out the translation of Spencer Gulf to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Spencer Gulf from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Spencer Gulf» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

斯宾塞海湾
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Spencer Golfo
570 millions of speakers

English

Spencer Gulf
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्पेंसर खाड़ी
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

سبنسر الخليج
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Спенсер залива
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Spencer Golfo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্পেন্সার উপসাগর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Golfe Spencer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Teluk Spencer
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Spencer Gulf
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

スペンサー湾
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

스펜서 만
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Teluk Spencer
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Vịnh Spencer
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஸ்பென்சர் வளைகுடா
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्पेंसर आखात
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Spencer Körfezi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Golfo di Spencer
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Spencer Gulf
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Спенсер затоки
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Spencer Gulf
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Spencer κόλπου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Spencer Golf
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Spencer Gulf
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Spencer Gulf
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPENCER GULF»

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GPS Fishing Marks, Australia Wide
Whiting 34 32 252 137 23 340 Spencer Gulf south Mt. Neptune Pinnacle, Morwong, nannygai 35 25 169 136 30 192 Spencer Gulf south Outer Lump Steep incline. Whiting, snapper 35 25 388 136 30 527 Spencer Gulf south Suzanne ll Large ...
Jim Harmon, 2010
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Under Southern Seas: The Ecology of Australia's Rocky Reefs
SPENCER GULF & GULF ST VINCENT Subtidal reefs in the gulfs typically comprise large, isolated shoal systems (eg, Tiparra Reef in Spencer Gulf and Orontes Bank in Gulf St Vincent) or shallow inshore reefs. In Spencer Gulf, granite cliffs ...
Neil Andrew, 1999
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Case Studies in Fisheries Self-governance
INTRODUCTION Western king prawns (Melicertus latisulcatus) were first trawled from Spencer Gulf by the Fishery Investigations Ship Endeavour in 1909. A Danish seine boat made the first unsuccessful attempt at commercial prawn trawling ...
Ralph Edwin Townsend, Ross Shotton, Hirotsugu Uchida, 2008
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Estuaries of Australia in 2050 and beyond
Box 1 Jochen Kampf studied South Australia gulfs — Spencer Gulf and Gulf St. Vincent. He describes the distinct physical factors shaping these inverse estuaries, their unique ecology, past environmental degradation and future threats. Rather ...
Eric Wolanski, 2013
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Great White Sharks: The Biology of Carcharodon carcharias
Here, we assess white shark abundance in the lower Spencer Gulf, using two techniques: a relative index of population density based on sightings per unit of effort and estimates of population size based on resightings of tagged individuals .
A. Peter Klimley, David G. Ainley, 1998
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North, West and South Coasts of Australia
SPENCER. GULF. Plan.— This sector describes the S coast of Australia from Cape Adieu to Cape Spencer and includes Spencer Gulf. The descriptive sequence is SE to the entrance of Spencer Gulf and then NNE through this gulf to its head.
‎2004
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Marine Protected Areas for Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises: ...
(79) Neptune Islands Group Marine Park • Includes the whole Neptune Islands Group, offshore waters adjacent to the mouth of Spencer Gulf, South Australia • 56mi2 (146km2) • probable: Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops aduncus; ...
Erich Hoyt, 2011
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Neritic Carbonate Sediments in a Temperate Realm: Southern ...
It is now a series of stranded Pleistocene beach-dune complexes that in some places may stretch back to the late Pliocene. The entrances to Spencer Gulf and Gulf St. Vincent are bounded either by bedrock or by aeolian- ites whereas the ...
Noel P. James, Yvonne Bone, 2010
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
UF Spencer's Gulf (S. Aust.) BT Bays—Australia Spencer Island (Wash.) UF South Spencer Island (Wash.) BT Islands—Washington (State) Spencer rifle ( Not Subd Geog) ]TS536.6.564] UF Seven-shooter, Spencer BT Rifles Spencer ...
Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office, 2009
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Oceanography And Marine Biology
The South Australia gulfs (Spencer Gulf and Gulf St Vincent) The tides of South Australia waters (Fig. 18) have long been recognized as anomalous and reported by many authors as early as Chapman (1892) and later by Bye (1976), Easton ...
R. N. Gibson, Margaret Barnes, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPENCER GULF»

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Alinta closures: Regional Planning Group looms as Port Augusta …
The Upper Spencer Gulf and Outback Taskforce was formed immediately after Alinta's announcement that it was closing the Port Augusta Power Station and ... «ABC Local, Jul 15»
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Stolen boat found, drug-affected boaties detected in Spencer Gulf
A water police operation on Spencer Gulf in South Australia has detected a boat stolen from Adelaide more than two years ago. Over the weekend the water ... «ABC Online, Mar 15»
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Indigenous Barngarla Australians win land claim
The Barngarla people traditionally lived along the north-western shore of the Spencer Gulf in South Australia. They lodged their claim for the land in 1996. «BBC News, Jan 15»
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Video shows boaties 'harassing' great white shark in SA waters …
... Australia are working to identify people in a video posted online which they say shows the boaties harassing a great white shark in the Upper Spencer Gulf. «ABC Online, Jan 15»
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John Holland wins contracts for huge Spencer Gulf greenhouse
Port Augusta-based Sundrop Farms uses solar-thermal energy to desalinate water from the Spencer Gulf, which is used to grow vegetables in greenhouses. «The Australian, Dec 14»
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Spencer Gulf prawn fleet helps a new management plan to protect …
The Spencer Gulf prawn fishery in South Australia was the first in the Asia Pacific to gain Marine Stewardship Council certification, a prestigious international ... «ABC Online, Oct 14»
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Giant Australian cuttlefish swarm back to SA Spencer Gulf breeding …
Hundreds of giant Australian cuttlefish have swum into breeding grounds at the top of Spencer Gulf in South Australia, reversing a worrying decline of recent ... «ABC Online, May 14»
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NETBALL - Spencer Gulf Carnival 2014
Teams from Port Pirie, Port Augusta, Whyalla, Roxby Downs and Port Lincoln played, along with Northern Areas Netball Association teams who joined in the ... «ABC Online, May 14»
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Centrex scales back Spencer Gulf ore export plan
Centrex Metals has released a lower-cost option for its proposed ore export facility on Spencer Gulf in South Australia. It has outlined plans to use a ... «ABC Online, Nov 13»
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Two men in hospital after boat sinks in South Australia's Spencer Gulf
Two men whose boat sank near Port Augusta, on South Australia's Spencer Gulf, spent six hours in the water before reaching land. Authorities received a call for ... «ABC Online, Oct 13»

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