Nuytsland Nature Reserve is a protected area of Western Australia in the south-eastern part of the state, on the south coast.
The middle section of the reserve protects the Baxter Cliffs, dramatic seacliffs that extend up to 80 metres high for over 190 km along the coast.
The eastern end of the reserve includes the western portion of the Roe Plains, with extensive coastal dunes and sandplains.
Plant communities include heath on the western coastal plains and headlands, woodlands and mallee dominated by eucalypts, and bluebush (Maireana spp.)
[5] The reserve was declared on 25 June 1965 and gazetted on 7 November 1969[6][7] and named for the Nuyts cadastral division within which it lies, named in honor of the infamous Pieter Nuyts, the highest ranking member of the Dutch East India Company aboard the 't Gulden Zeepaert when it mapped the southwestern Australian coast, after which it was sometimes known as Nuytsland (French: Terre de Nuits).