Qualla: Israelite Bay https://qualla.com/israelite-bay en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Israelite Bay https://qualla.com/israelite-bay Israelite Bay: Introduction https://qualla.com/israelite-bay/ The name is the first puzzle. There is nothing Jewish about this windblown stretch of the Southern Ocean coast, far east of Esperance where the road runs out and the Nullarbor meets the sea. The answer lies with two pastoralist brothers, Charles and Andrew Dempster, who explored here in 1863 and noticed something an outsider might miss: the Ngadju people of this country practised circumcision, while the Noongar to their west did not. To the brothers, raised on scripture, that distinction echoed an ancient one, and they named the place Israelite Bay. Without quite meaning to, they had marked on the map a boundary the Aboriginal nations had known for countless generations.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/0/0/israelite-bay-wp/qf00-israelite-bay-what-the-wind-left.mp3 0:06 4 full Israelite Bay: The Edge of the Known Coast https://qualla.com/israelite-bay/ Israelite Bay sits inside the Nuytsland Nature Reserve, which swallows nearly the whole locality, on the western shoulder of the Great Australian Bight east of Cape Arid. Twenty-five kilometres west lies Point Malcolm and its long sandy beach. Offshore scatter the Eastern Group, ...

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