Famous for the oyster farms
The Parnkalla people occupied the area prior to white settlement in the 1830s.
British naval explorer Matthew Flinders named the bay on 16 February 1802 in honour of his friend
Sir Isaac Coffin, who was Resident Naval Commissioner at Sheerness, where the Investigator
was fitted out. The same year, French explorer Nicolas Baudin provided the alternative
French name of Baie Delambre. [Wikipedia]