Eggcorn Forum

A bight is a bend in a shoreline or a narrow bay. The Great Australian Bight is the huge indentation along the southern coast of Australia, and it does take quite a bite out of the continent. The phrase, ‘Great Australian Bite’ is a nearly irresistible pun for dentists and restaurateurs, but there are plenty of authentic eggcorn instances too:

The trip has been rough, with rough spots at Cape Leeuwin and the Great Australian Bite, but the Duyfken sailed into Port Lincoln only a few hours behind …
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Blue Australwink
It occurs generally throughout southern Australia south of the Tropic of Capricorn. It is very rare or even absent across the Great Australian Bite.
www.mesa.edu.au/friends/seashores/n_unifasciata.html

First of all, I did not know that the curve of the southern Australian coast is called “The Great Australian Bite”.
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Snow Co: Weather Information Page
Bureau of Meteorology, Australia. Daily maps of Australia showing the Southern Indian Ocean, Great Australian Bite and South Tasman sea.
www.snow.co.nz/snowreports/weather.asp

Chart 61G covers Tasmania and the entire southern coastline of Australia from Perth (WA) to Woollongong Harbour (NSW), including the Great Australian Bite, ...
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South Australia spreads from central outback Australia towns such as Coober Peedy to the rugged coastline of the Great Australian Bite.
www.backpackingaround.com/aus/adelaide- … ttemp.html

We plan to travel across the entire country stopping off at the head of the Great Australian Bite, where the magnificent Right Whales frolick …
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This fence stretches some 5600kms, beginning in the Great Australian Bite and ending at the Great Dividing Range at Jimbour near Brisbane.
www.outbackspirit.net.au/simpson.php