Qualla: Baxter Cliffs https://qualla.com/baxter-cliffs en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/0/v/baxter-cliffs-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Baxter Cliffs https://qualla.com/baxter-cliffs Baxter Cliffs: Introduction https://qualla.com/baxter-cliffs/ Photo credit Aussie Oc at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. For almost two hundred kilometres, there is no way down. The Baxter Cliffs rise as a single unbroken wall of pale limestone where the Nullarbor Plain runs out of land and drops, sometimes eighty metres, straight into the Southern Ocean. No harbour, no jetty, no path of descent for most of that length. The plain above is so flat that a traveller can stand a few metres back and never guess the edge is there at all, until the ground simply stops and the swell of the Great Australian Bight booms against the rock below. These are reckoned among the longest sea cliffs on Earth, and they carry the name of a man who never saw their full extent.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/0/v/baxter-cliffs-wp/qf0v-baxter-cliffs-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Baxter Cliffs: The Edge of the Bight https://qualla.com/baxter-cliffs/ Photo credit Aussie Oc at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. The cliffs run for nearly 200 kilometres, from Point Culver in the west, at the northern end of the Israelite Plain, northeastward to Twilight Cove, where the rampart finally relents and gives way to the lower Roe Plains. They reach up to 80 metres tall. Along that entire span, T...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/0/v/baxter-cliffs-wp/qf0v-baxter-cliffs-the-edge-of-the-bight.mp3 0:06 2 full Baxter Cliffs: A Name Carried From the Crossing https://qualla.com/baxter-cliffs/ Photo credit Aussie Oc at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. The cliffs honour John Baxter, overseer to the explorer Edward John Eyre. In 1841 the two men set out to cross the Nullarbor by land from Fowler's Bay in South Australia, accompanied by three young Aboriginal men, among them one named Wylie. The country was merciless: weeks of wa...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/0/v/baxter-cliffs-wp/qf0v-baxter-cliffs-a-name-carried-from-the-crossing.mp3 0:06 3 full Baxter Cliffs: The Two Who Walked On https://qualla.com/baxter-cliffs/ Photo credit Aussie Oc at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. What followed is one of the great survival stories of Australian exploration, and it belongs as much to Wylie as to Eyre. The two pressed westward for more than a month, sharing what little food they could find, each keeping the other alive. In early June, near Esperance, they si...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/0/v/baxter-cliffs-wp/qf0v-baxter-cliffs-the-two-who-walked-on.mp3 0:06 4 full Baxter Cliffs: Reading the Country Today https://qualla.com/baxter-cliffs/ Photo credit Aussie Oc at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. Visitors rarely reach the clifftop without effort. The escarpment lies within the Nuytsland Nature Reserve, far from the Eyre Highway, down rough station tracks that demand a four-wheel drive and self-sufficiency. There are no railings and no warnings out here, only the long pale...

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