The bay was named in May 1801 by French explorer Nicolas Baudin, after his ship, Géographe. The bay is a wide curve of coastline extending from Cape Naturaliste past the towns of Dunsborough and Busselton, ending near the city of Bunbury. The bay is protected from the rough seas of the Indian Ocean by Cape Naturaliste (named after Naturaliste), which makes it a popular destination for recreational boaters. The bay is extremely shallow, limiting the entrance of large ships. To alleviate this problem the two-kilometre-long Busselton Jetty, the longest in the southern hemisphere, was built.
The Royal Australian Navy frigate HMASSwan was sunk in the bay off the town of Dunsborough on 14 December 1997, for use as a dive wreck.
The bay attracts whale watchers, who see it as an alternative to Flinders Bay.
The north west part of the bay is the location of a number of surf breaks.
The environment of the drainage systems into the bay, and the bay itself have attracted research and studies.[1][2][3]
Notes
Coastal Zone Inquiry (Australia); Western Australia. Department of Planning and Urban Development; Australia. Resource Assessment Commission; Western Australia. Coastal Management Co-ordinating Committee; Meridian Environmental (1993), Western Australian case study report: study area: Geographe Bay, The Commission, ISBN978-0-644-28610-7
Geographe Bay Land and Sea Conference (1994: Busselton, W.A.); Geographe Bay Advisory Committee (W.A.) (1994), Geographe Bay Land and Sea Conference 1994, The Committee, retrieved 28 November 2013
Western Australia. Ministry for Planning; Geographe Bay Advisory Committee (1995), Geographe Bay integrated catchment management strategy (draft): guidelines for people managing Geographe Bay and its catchment area, Western Australian Planning Commission, ISBN978-0-7309-5357-9
Further reading
Edward Duyker François Péron: An Impetuous Life: Naturalist and Voyager, Miegunyah/MUP, Melb., 2006, ISBN978-0-522-85260-8,
Fornasiero, Jean; Monteath, Peter and West-Sooby, John. Encountering Terra Australis: the Australian voyages of Nicholas Baudin and Matthew Flinders, Kent Town, South Australia, Wakefield Press, 2004. ISBN1-86254-625-8
Frank Horner, The French Reconnaissance: Baudin in Australia 1801–1803, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1987 ISBN0-522-84339-5.
Marchant, Leslie R. French Napoleonic Placenames of the South West Coast, Greenwood, WA. R.I.C. Publications, 2004. ISBN1-74126-094-9
Recherche Archipelago (L’Archipel de la Recherche)
Only places with the name still in use in either the original or anglicised version are listed above. Many names have been anglicised; for these the original French name appears in brackets.
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