Cape Catastrophe

Cape Catastrophe
South Australia
Cape Catastrophe
Coordinates 34°59′7″S 136°0′10″E / 34.98528°S 136.00278°E / -34.98528; 136.00278Coordinates: 34°59′7″S 136°0′10″E / 34.98528°S 136.00278°E / -34.98528; 136.00278

Cape Catastrophe is a headland in the Australian state of South Australia located at the south east tip of Jussieu Peninsula on Eyre Peninsula. It is one of the natural features named by the British navigator Matthew Flinders in memory of the eight crew who were lost from a cutter that capsized sometime after being launched from the HM Sloop Investigator to search for water on 21 February 1802.[1] Flinders also nominated the headland as being the western point of the mouth of Spencer Gulf.[2] It is currently located within the gazetted locality of Lincoln National Park and the protected area known as the Memory Cove Wilderness Protection Area.[3][4]


References

  1. ↑ "Encounter 1802-2002: Flinders' voyage; Difficulties and disasters". State Library of South Australia. Archived from the original on 25 March 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
  2. ↑ Flinders, Matthew (1966) [1814]. A Voyage to Terra Australis : undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803 in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland Schooner; with an account of the shipwreck of the Porpoise, arrival of the Cumberland at Mauritius, and imprisonment of the commander during six years and a half in that island (Facsimile ed.). Adelaide; Facsimile reprint of: London : G. and W. Nicol, 1814 ed. In two volumes, with an Atlas (3 volumes): Libraries Board of South Australia. p. 249. Retrieved 27 March 2013.
  3. ↑ "Memory Cove Wilderness Protection Area Management Plan". Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources. 2005. p. 1. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
  4. ↑ "Search result for "Cape Catastrophe (Cape)" (Record no. SA0012852) with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities" and " Place names (gazetteer)"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 18 September 2016.


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