Maupertuis Bay
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Maupertuis Bay is located on the south-west of Kangaroo Island in South Australia. The bay forms the mouth of Rocky River which rises from within Flinders Chase National Park.[1]
Maupertuis Bay was named after mathematician and philosopher Pierre Louis Maupertuis by the French explorer Nicolas Baudin.[2]
On 24 April 1899, the Scottish barque Loch Sloy was shipwrecked off the coast from Maupertuis Bay[3] resulting in the death of all but three crew and passengers.
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