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The Nullarbor Nymph was a hoax perpetrated in Australia between 1971 and 1972 that involved supposed sightings of a half-naked woman living amongst kangaroos on the Nullarbor Plain .

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19-543: Eucla Airport is an airstrip in Eucla, Western Australia . It has one runway that is 1369 m long. It has a Traffic Pattern Altitude of 305 m. It is mostly used by the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia , who completed 84 medical evacuations from the airstrip between 2009 and 2014. There is an ongoing campaign to upgrade the flood-prone airstrip. When it is unusable, aircraft must land on

38-471: A conversion point because South Australia and Victoria used American Morse code (locally known as the Victorian alphabet) while Western Australia used the international Morse code that is familiar today. A jetty and tram line were constructed for offloading supplies brought in by sea. The town was proclaimed a township and gazetted in 1885, and reached its peak in the 1920s, prior to the construction of

57-658: A low-budget movie titled The Nullarbor Nymph was produced out of Ceduna, South Australia and written and directed by Mathew J. Wilkinson. The mockumentary depicts the Nymph as tormenting men who travel across the Nullarbor. The film premiered in Ceduna on 3 March 2012 and then across Australia in following months. The film received much hype thanks to radio announcer Merrick Watts of Triple M 's Merrick and The Highway Patrol show which aired across Australia. A Sydney premiere

76-565: A new telegraph line further north alongside the Trans-Australian Railway in 1929. In the 1890s a rabbit plague passed through the area and ate much of the Delisser Sandhills ' dune vegetation, thus destabilising the dune system and causing large sand drifts to encroach on the townsite. The original town was abandoned, and a new townsite established about 4 km (2.5 mi) to the north and higher up on

95-490: Is believed to originate from an Aboriginal word Yinculyer which one (uncited) source gives as referring to the rising of the planet Venus . It was first used by Europeans for the area at some point before 1867. In 1841, Eyre and Baxter became the first European explorers to visit the area. In 1867, the president of the Marine Board of South Australia declared a port at Eucla, and in 1870, John Forrest camped at

114-537: The Great Victoria Desert . Winters are mild to cool with a rainfall peak. For a semi-desert climate the humidity is rather high all-year round, due to the moisture from the nearby ocean. Despite its close proximity to the desert, the locality only gets 94.4 clear days annually, which is lower than the humid subtropical cities like Sydney and Newcastle on the east coast. With summers being right around 22 °C (72 °F) means, temperatures are near

133-730: The South Australian border. At the 2016 Australian census , Eucla had a population of 53. It is the only Western Australian location on the Eyre Highway that has a direct view of the Great Australian Bight due to its elevated position immediately next to the Eucla Pass – where the highway moves out and above the basin known as Roe Plains that occurs between the Madura and Eucla passes. The name Eucla

152-577: The Central Western Time Zone of UTC+8:45 . Although it has no official sanction, it is universally observed in this area, stopping just to the east of Caiguna . Eucla is a major stop-off point along the Eyre Highway . In October 2005, Greyhound Australia announced the closure of their Nullarbor service due to rising fuel prices and declining passenger numbers. Nullarbor Nymph The first report on 26 December 1971

171-875: The Nullarbor Nymph , which was cast into bronze, was exhibited in front of the South Australian Museum for three months, was selected in the 2004 Sculpture by the Sea exhibition in Sydney, and is now on display in front of the Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide. In 1994 an installation at the Australian National Gallery referred to the myth. The issue is raised as an urban myth periodically. In 2012

190-696: The border between maritime and subtropical climates , although Eucla is highly variable due to the combined cool-ocean and hot-desert influences. Average maximum temperatures vary from 25 to 27 °C (77 to 81 °F) from December to March, to 18 °C (64 °F) in July. The average annual rainfall of 320.1 millimetres (12.60 in) is evenly spread through the year, with monthly totals ranging from 14.9 millimetres (0.59 in) in January to 35.0 millimetres (1.38 in) in December. The highest temperature

209-466: The escarpment. The ruins of the original telegraph station which still stand amongst the dunes are a local tourist attraction. Many of the pioneer farmers and telegraph operators were buried at Eucla, but as the sand dunes encroached onto their graves, some of the headstones and plaques were removed and can now be seen at the museum at Eucla. In 1898, the population of the town was 96 (82 males and 14 females). In 1971, worldwide media publicity came to

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228-400: The location for nearly two weeks. In 1873, land was taken up at Moopina Station near the present townsite, and work commenced on a telegraph line from Albany to Adelaide . Land was set aside at Eucla for the establishment of a manual repeater station, and when the telegraph line opened in 1877, Eucla was one of the most important telegraph stations on the line. The station was important as

247-650: The major activities in the locality. There is a Travellers Cross that, despite its name, commemorates locals who have died. The South Australian settlement of Border Village is located 12 kilometres (7 mi) east of Eucla. Primarily established as a quarantine checkpoint for agricultural produce, this small settlement also comprises a licensed roadhouse and caravan park. Eucla and the surrounding area, notably Mundrabilla and Madura in Western Australia and Border Village in South Australia, use

266-589: The nearby Eyre Highway . [REDACTED] Media related to Eucla Airport at Wikimedia Commons This Western Australian airport-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Eucla, Western Australia Eucla is the easternmost locality in Western Australia , located in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia along the Eyre Highway , approximately 11 kilometres (7 mi) west of

285-624: The partner of Laurie Scott, one of the kangaroo-shooter hoaxers. Scott admitted to Murray Nicoll of The News that the hoax was created by a publicist Geoff Pearce, of Melbourne, who happened to be in the Eucla Hotel and had contacts within the media. Nullarbor Nymph sculptures by Dora Dallwitz were shown in 1994 at an exhibition held for students graduating from their Master of Visual Arts degree in Sculpture, and in 2000 and 2004 at Top Floor Gallery in Adelaide. Her main sculpture After

304-524: The town after reports (and indistinct photographs) emerged of a half-naked blonde girl who had gone wild and lived and ran with the kangaroos, who came to be known as the " Nullarbor Nymph ". The story subsequently turned out to be a hoax created by the residents of the tiny settlement. Eucla has a semi-arid climate ( BSk ) with Mediterranean climate ( Csb ) tendencies. Summers are warm and dry, although mild by Australian outback standards. However, very hot days can occur, caused by hot northerly winds from

323-415: The town of Eucla which had a population of 8 people at the time. The incident was eventually revealed as a hoax, initiated as a publicity stunt . The girl on the film turned out to be a 17-year-old model named Janice Beeby. She did appear in a photograph taken later, as an evidence of the Nullarbor Nymph, but the woman in the original photograph used by the media to disseminate the hoax was Geneice Brooker,

342-512: Was 49.8 °C (122 °F) on 19 December 2019, while the lowest was −2.2 °C (28 °F) on 20 June 1936. Eucla is the largest stopping point between Norseman and Penong for travellers along the Eyre Highway . It has a hotel and restaurant, a police station, a golf club (7 km (4 mi) to the north), a museum dedicated to the Old Telegraph Station, and a meteorological station. These, together with fishing, are

361-425: Was by professional kangaroo shooters from Eucla in Western Australia , near the border with South Australia . They claimed to have seen a blonde , white woman amongst some kangaroos, and backed their story with grainy amateur film showing a woman wearing kangaroo skins and holding a kangaroo by the tail. After further sightings were claimed, the story was reported around the world, and journalists descended upon

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