Cape Radstock

Cape Radstock is a headland located on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia about 45 kilometres (28 miles) south south-east of the town of Streaky Bay and about 9.3 kilometres (5 nmi) south east of Point Labatt. The cape is both the north western extremity of Anxious Bay and the southern extremity of the Calca Peninsula. The cape is described by one source as being “steep and bold” and where the cliffs reach a height of 135 metres (443 feet), being the high point of a line of cliffs starting at Point Labatt in the west and from within Anxious Bay in the east. It was named by Matthew Flinders on 9 February 1802 after William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock. Since 2012, the waters adjoining its shoreline are within a habitat protection zone in the West Coast Bays Marine Park.[1][2][3][4][5]

Cape Radstock
South Australia
Cape Radstock
Coordinates33°11′55.3″S 134°19′43.3″E
Elevation135 m (443 ft)[1]
Location45 km (28 mi) south south-east of Streaky Bay

References
  1. Sailing Directions (Enroute), Pub. 175: North, West, and South Coasts of Australia (PDF). Sailing Directions. United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2017. p. 178.
  2. "Search for feature SA0057516 (Cape Radstock (SA))". Geoscience Australia. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
  3. South Australia. Department of Marine and Harbors (DMH) (1985), The Waters of South Australia a series of charts, sailing notes and coastal photographs, Dept. of Marine and Harbors, South Australia, p. chart 39, ISBN 978-0-7243-7603-2
  4. 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. 221. Retrieved 5 January 2014.CS1 maint: location (link)
  5. "West Coast Bays Marine Park Management Plan 2012" (PDF). Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources. 2012. p. 26/26. Retrieved 2 April 2015.


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