Just 10 minutes shy of the South Australian border, with a population of about 50 people, Eucla is the largest Settlement on the Nullarbor Plain.

Formerly the busiest telegraph station in Australia (early 1900's) the settlement now has basic facilities for travellers; service station, caravan park, hotel/motel etc. Make sure you book accommodation ahead as numbers of travellers are passing through at any given time.

It has a museum dedicated to the Old Telegraph Station, and a meteorological station. These together with fishing are the locality's major attractions. There is a Travellers' Cross that (despite its name) commemorates deceased local people.

About 50 kilometres east of Eucla are signs marking the roads to the escarpment. These huge limestone cliffs (100 metres high) are part of the longest unbroken cliff line in the world and from here you will be looking out over the 'Great Australian Bite'. It is the only location on the Eyre Highway that has a direct view of
the Bight due to its 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.

As is often the case in such isolated townships, the locals tend to make their own fun with several novelty events each year such as the Border Dash (held Oct/Nov) which is basically a race to the South Australian border (13km). In May each year people from Ceduna, Norseman, Esperance and Kalgoorlie converge on the Eucla Golf Club for the annual Golf Day.

See www.nullarbornet.com.au/towns/eucla.html