Cape Carnot

Cape Carnot South Australia
Cape Carnot
Coordinates	34°56′47.1″S 135°37′32.2″E / 34.946417°S 135.625611°E / -34.946417; 135.625611Coordinates: 34°56′47.1″S 135°37′32.2″E / 34.946417°S 135.625611°E / -34.946417; 135.625611
Elevation	89 m (292 ft)^[1]
Location	30 km (19 mi) south west of Port Lincoln

Cape Carnot (French: Cap Carnot) is a headland located on the west side of the southern tip of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia about 30 kilometres (19 mi) south west of the city of Port Lincoln. The cape is described by one source as being the “S(outh) W(est) extremity of a broad promontory of which Cape Wiles, 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) to the E(ast), is the S(outh) E(ast) extremity”. It is one of a number of coastal features first discovered but not subsequently named by Matthew Flinders in February 1802 and which remained unnamed. In 1913, the Government of South Australia gave the unnamed feature the name proposed by the Baudin expedition when it visited in April 1802. The name Cape Carnot honours Lazare Carnot who is notable as a “French mathematician, general and statesman, who played a prominent part in the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era”. The cape is considered by the Australian Hydrographic Service to be the eastern end of the Great Australian Bight. Since 2012, the waters adjoining its shoreline are within a habitat protection zone in the Thorny Passage Marine Park.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

References

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. 170. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
↑ "Search for feature SA0012527 (Cape Carnot)". Geoscience Australia. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
↑ "AHS – AA609582" (PDF) (PDF). The Australian Hydrographic Service. 5 July 2012. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
↑ "The Commonwealth". The Register. 17 July 1913. p. 9. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
↑ "Early whaling operations in Sleaford Bay, Station established there in 1837, Historical review of western coastline". Port Lincoln Times. 15 June 1934. p. 5. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
↑ "Thorny Passage Marine Park Management Plan 2012" (PDF). Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources. 2012. pp. 24/31. Retrieved 3 April 2014.

Eyre Peninsula, South Australia

Cities

Townships

Governance

Federal division	Grey

State electoral districts	Flinders Giles Stuart

Local Government	Ceduna DC Cleve DC Elliston DC Franklin Harbour DC Kimba DC Lower Eyre Peninsula DC City of Port Augusta City of Port Lincoln Streaky Bay DC Tumby Bay DC City of Whyalla Wudinna DC

Protected areas

Coastal features

West coast	Anxious Bay Calca Peninsula Cape Blanche Cape Carnot Cape Catastrophe Cape Finniss Cape Radstock Cape Wiles Coffin Bay Peninsula Jussieu Peninsula Point Avoid Point Labatt Point Weyland Point Whidbey Slade Point

East coast	Cape Burr Cape Donington Cape Hardy Lipson Cove Memory Cove Point Lowly Yorkey Crossing

Islands adjoining Eyre Peninsula coast

West coast	Avoid Bay Islands Baird Bay Jones Island Unnamed island, Baird Bay Cap Island Eba Island Germein Island Grantham Island Greenly Island Investigator Group Flinders Island Waldegrave Islands Ward Islands Liguanea Island Neptune Islands Nicolas Baudin Island Nuyts Archipelago Smooth Island Olive Island Pigface Island Whidbey Isles Williams Island

East coast	Bicker Isles Boston Island Curlew Island Entrance Island Hopkins Island Lewis Island Lipson Island Little Island Louth Island Owen Island Sir Joseph Banks Group Sleaford Islands Smith Island Taylor Island Thistle Island Tumby Island

Related and uncategorised

The Peninsulas zone (wine)

Australian places named by French explorers in the 18th and 19th centuries

South Australia	Cape Bedout Cape Borda Cape Bouguer Cape Carnot Cape du Couedic Casuarina Islets (Ilots du Cassuarina) D'Estrees Bay (Baie D'Estrees) Dorothee Island (Ile Dorothee) Fleurieu Peninsula Cape Forbin Cape Gantheaume Guichen Bay (Baie de Guichen) Jussieu Peninsula Lacepede Bay Maupertuis Bay (Baie Maupertuis) Fenelon Island Masillon Island Ravine des Casoars Rivoli Bay (Baie de Rivoli) Cape Thevenard Veteran Isles (Ile du Veteran) Vivonne Bay (Baie Vivonne)

Western Australia	Cape Clairault Cape Freycinet Cape Mentelle Cape Naturaliste Faure Island Gantheaume Point Geographe Bay Lancelin Island Middle Island (Iles du Milieu) Peron Peninsula Recherche Archipelago (L’Archipel de la Recherche)

Only places with the name still in use in either the original or anglicised version are listed above. Many names have been anglicised; for these the original French name appears in brackets.

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