A missing British tourist has been found dead on an Australian beach after falling from a cliff.

Police were called to Billy’s Beach in Corunna after reports emerged that a body had washed up on shore.

A spokesman said: ‘The body has been formally identified, and it is that of the missing 23-year-old UK national.’

‘A report will be prepared for the coroner.’

The Brit had been missing for almost a week after falling from a cliff on January 18.

After the incident, emergency services were called to Mystery Bay Beach, in New South Wales at 6:40pm.

Marine Rescue NSW, SES VRA Rescue volunteers and police searched the water after the man disappeared, however he was not found.

The search was scaled back last week.

Mystery Bay, NSW, Australia
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Mystery Bay, NSW, Australia

Chief Inspector Shane Jessep from the South Coast Police District said: ‘He wasn’t a rock fisherman, it was a male sightseeing and … appears to have had an accident and slipped on the rocks.’

This comes just weeks after an Austrian woman narrowly avoided death after slipping from a steep ledge while she was climbing a popular tourist spot near Melbourne.

The 31-year-old woman fell six metres from a rock at Bushrangers Bay near the Mornington Peninsula on December 27.

Emergency services rushed to the scene where they are believed to have found her choking on water while she was unconscious.

Crews moved her to higher ground on a stretcher to avoid the tide coming in.

The young woman was winched by Ambulance Victoria’s HEMS and airlifted to The Alfred hospital in Melbourne with non-life threatening injuries.

The young woman was winched by Ambulance Victoria's HEMS and airlifted to The Alfred hospital in Melbourne with non-life threatening injuries
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The young woman was winched by Ambulance Victoria’s HEMS and airlifted to The Alfred hospital in Melbourne with non-life threatening injuries

‘She was missing her teeth, so we believe she may have had a head injury as well,’ paramedic Jo Wilton told 9News.

‘On further examination, it looks like a hip injury, a wrist injury (as well).’

Wilton said the tourist is believed to have climbed the roughly 12m-tall Elephant Rock before she fell.

‘There’s no actual tracks to get up to it, and on the way down, she has fallen, where there might have been some loose rocks,’ she said.

‘We walked across the rough terrain to reach her and rescuers had to carry their equipment along the beach and so it’s very dangerous for our crews as well.’