Ceduna sits on the edge of a great expanse of wilderness – the Nullarbor Plain. No wonder ‘Ceduna’ is thought to come from a local Wirangu word meaning ‘a place to sit down and rest’.

The beautiful bay you see beyond the line of shady Norfolk Pines is Murat Bay, named by French explorer Nicholas Baudin. He also named Thevenard Point, now one of South Australia’s busiest ports handling two million tonnes of grain, gypsum, salt and mineral sands each year.

Since the first oysters were farmed here in 1985, Ceduna and nearby Smoky Bay have become the ‘Oyster Capital of South Australia’ with half of the state’s oysters grown in these waters.

FAST FACTS!

• The nearby Isles of Saint Peter, charted by 17th-century Dutch sailors, are said to have been the inspiration for Lilliput in Gulliver’s Travels
• From 1969 to 1984, a 30 metre satellite dish outside Ceduna handled almost half of Australia’s international telecommunication traffic
• For many years locals called the township Murat Bay, it wasn’t until 1915 that Ceduna was formally adopted as the name of the town
• Ceduna oysters are known for their ‘salty’ taste due to the lack of natural freshwater runoff into the bay
• The Worlds Longest Golf Course – the Nullarbor Links, begins in Ceduna and spans 1365km across the Nullarbor to Kalgoorlie in Western Australia