Etymology

Wool Bay

Today it means: A town and bay in Yorke Peninsula council area, South Australia. Full definition →

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The story

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.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.