English Explanatory Dictionary

Wool Bay

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A town and bay in Yorke Peninsula council area, South Australia.

Word forms

Wool Bay

Etymology

The bay was named for the old practice of rolling bales of wool down the cliffs to ships moored at the jetty. The town was originally named Pickering, but was renamed after the bay by 1940.

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