Cape Conway, Queensland

Geography

The entire locality is within Conway National Park. The land is mountainous and undeveloped bushland. Conway Range runs along the eastern part of the locality with a number of named peaks,[3] the highest of which is High Mountain at 555 metres (1,821 ft) above sea level. High Mountain was originally noted as High Peak on a chart by Lieutenant Francis Price Blackwood (Royal Navy) in HMS Fly in 1843.[4][5]

History

The locality name derives from the geographic feature Cape Conway which was named on 3 June 1770 by Lieutenant James Cook on the HM Bark Endeavour after Henry Seymour Conway, the Secretary of State for the Southern Department from 1765 to 1766 and Secretary of State for the Northern Department from 1766 to 1768.[2]

References
  1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Cape Conway (SSC)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  2. "Cape Conway - locality in Whitsunday Region (entry 46857)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  3. "Conway Range - range in Whitsunday Region (entry 8002)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
  4. "High Mountain - mountain in Whitsunday Region (entry 15853)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
  5. "Queensland Globe". State of Queensland. Retrieved 10 November 2018.


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