Coffin Bay

Coffin Bay lies on the western side of the southern Eyre Peninsula, where sandy peninsulas enclose channels and sheltered shallows. The Nauo people have long inhabited this coastal country. Before the establishment of South Australia in 1836, sealers raided coastal communities and abducted Nauo women. In February 1802 Matthew Flinders named the bay for Sir Isaac Coffin, the naval commissioner at Sheerness, where his ship Investigator had been fitted out.