Cape Banks

Cape Banks
South Australia
Cape Banks
Coordinates 37°55′14″S 140°23′44″E / 37.920467°S 140.395494°E / -37.920467; 140.395494Coordinates: 37°55′14″S 140°23′44″E / 37.920467°S 140.395494°E / -37.920467; 140.395494
Elevation 15 m (49 ft)[1]
Location 36 km (22 mi) west south-west of Mount Gambier
Footnotes Coordinates[2]

Cape Banks is a headland in the Australian state of South Australia located in the gazetted locality of Carpenter Rocks at the south end of Bucks Bay and the north end of Bungaloo Bay on the state's south east coast about 36 kilometres (22 miles) west south west of the city of Mount Gambier.[2]

The cape is described by one source as being ‘a rocky point, 15m 15 metres (49 feet) high, 24 nautical miles (44 kilometres; 28 miles) SSE of Cape Buffon’ while another source describes it as ‘a cuspate foreland protruding 500 metres (1,600 feet) seaward in lee of calcarenite rocks and reefs’.[1][3]

It was named by the Royal Navy officer, James Grant, on 3 December 1800. The navigation aid known as the Cape Banks Lighthouse is located on the cape and has been in operation since 1 January 1883.[4][5][6]

The cadastral unit of land which includes the cape was added to the Canunda National Park on 14 August 1997.[2][7][8]

References

  1. 1 2 National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (2010). Pub175, Sailing directions (enroute) north, west, and south coast of Australia (PDF) (10th ed.). National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). p. 219. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 "Search result(s) for Cape Banks (Record No. SA0010489) with the following layers being selected - "Parcel labels", "Suburbs and Localities" and "Place names (gazetteer)"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  3. ↑ "Cape Banks UNPATROLLED BEACH". Surf Life Saving Australia. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
  4. ↑ "COUNTRY TELEGRAMS". The South Australian Advertiser. XXV, (7552). South Australia. 2 January 1883. p. 5. Retrieved 14 May 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ "Banks, Cape". State Library of South Australia. Archived from the original on 4 April 2015. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
  6. ↑ Boating Industry Association of South Australia (BIA); South Australia. Department for Environment and Heritage (2005), South Australia's waters an atlas & guide, Boating Industry Association of South Australia, p. 178, ISBN 978-1-86254-680-6
  7. ↑ "NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE ACT 1972 PART 3: ALTERATION OF BOUNDARIES OF RESERVES" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia: 336. 14 August 1997. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  8. ↑ "Property Summary Report" (PDF). Protected Areas Information System. Government of South Australia. 16 December 2016. p. 47. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
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