Flinders and Freycinet Lookout

Flinders and Freycinet Lookout - Whyalla visitor guide showing a virtual tour of 'Flinders and Freycinet Lookout' linked to an interactive map with local and travel information. 360° panoramas from South Australia.

Flinders and Freycinet Lookout in Whyalla offers excellent, panoramic views over Spencer Gulf with the Southern Flinders Ranges as backdrop. It is named after, and comm the efforts of the 2 explorers Matthew Flinders and Louis-Claude de Freycinet who navigated and charted this part of Australia in 1802 and 1803 respectively.

In the early 19th century, it was debated whether Australia was one a single landmass or split into two. The survey of the Spencer Gulf confirmed that it was indeed one landmass, and, as Flinders wrote in 1802, '...our prospect of a channel or strait, cutting off some considerable portion of Terra Australis, was lost...'

The next year, in 1803, Louis-Claude de Freycinet navigated and charted the isolated coast for the Baudin expedition. His ship anchored for a night of Hammock Hill, which was later to become Whyalla, and was taken in by the stunning local scenery.

Car: The Flinders and Freycinet Lookout is next to Farrell Street, at the eastern end of Elliot Street in central Whyalla.