Each winter (May-Aug) thousands of Australian giant cuttlefish (Sepia apama) make their way to False Bay, Eyre peninsular, nw of Adelaide, South Australia. In this bay at the head of Spencer Gulf, the cold water and rocky seafloor offer prime conditions for the largest known mass spawning of cuttlefish in the to nearly 1m long, the Australian giant cuttlefish is the largest of these unique cephalopods. Whyalla city's Cuttlefish Coast Sanctuary Tourism & Conservation Project will be completed in : September 2021. An optimised version of a NASA image / credit NASA

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Location: Australia, South Australia, Eyre Peninsular, Spencer Gulf, False Bay
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