Qualla: Slade Point https://qualla.com/slade-point-south-australia 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: Slade Point https://qualla.com/slade-point-south-australia Slade Point: Introduction https://qualla.com/slade-point-south-australia/ Matthew Flinders sailed right past this headland and never saw it. On 9 February 1802, the Investigator worked its way along the western edge of Eyre Peninsula, charting a coastline no European had mapped before, and a thick haze hung over the water that day. Somewhere behind that grey curtain stood the blunt limestone promontory now called Slade Point. Flinders named dozens of capes, bays, and islands on this voyage. This one he missed entirely. It would wait another hundred and six years before anyone bothered to give it a name at all.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/p/7/slade-point-south-australia-wp/qfp7-slade-point-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Slade Point: The Headland Between Two Bays https://qualla.com/slade-point-south-australia/ Slade Point is a hinge in the coastline. It marks the northern tip of Searcy Bay and the southern tip of Sceale Bay, a stubby promontory that shoulders the two apart. Stand here and the Great Australian Bight spreads out in front of you, all the way to Antarctica with nothing in ...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/p/7/slade-point-south-australia-wp/qfp7-slade-point-the-headland-between-two-bays.mp3 0:06 2 full Slade Point: The Man Behind the Name https://qualla.com/slade-point-south-australia/ When the point was finally named in 1908, it honoured a public servant rather than an explorer or a settler. The name commemorates William E. Slade, who had served as Assistant Engineer of Harbours in the South Australian government. It was the kind of quiet bureaucratic christen...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/p/7/slade-point-south-australia-wp/qfp7-slade-point-the-man-behind-the-name.mp3 0:06 3 full Slade Point: The Voyage That Named a Coast https://qualla.com/slade-point-south-australia/ Flinders missed Slade Point, but he left his fingerprints all over the rest of this shoreline. Just days earlier, on 5 February 1802, he had anchored a little to the north and noticed the sea oddly discoloured, marbled with pale streaks. He duly wrote in his log that he called th...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/p/7/slade-point-south-australia-wp/qfp7-slade-point-the-voyage-that-named-a-coast.mp3 0:06 4 full Slade Point: A Coast Set Aside https://qualla.com/slade-point-south-australia/ In recent years this stretch of coast has been gathered into a web of conservation. Since 2012, Slade Point has bordered the Cape Blanche Conservation Park, and the waters lapping its base sit inside a habitat protection zone of the West Coast Bays Marine Park. The protections re...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/p/7/slade-point-south-australia-wp/qfp7-slade-point-a-coast-set-aside.mp3 0:06 5 full Slade Point: Edge of the World https://qualla.com/slade-point-south-australia/ There is a particular feeling to standing on Eyre Peninsula's western shore. The land behind you flattens into low scrub and farmland, dry and wind-combed, and then the continent simply stops. Slade Point is one of countless unremarkable-looking headlands along this coast, yet ea...

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