Cape Blanche Explained
Cape Blanche is a headland located on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia about 25km (16miles) south south-west of the town of Streaky Bay and about 4km (02miles) west of the town of Sceale Bay.
History
While it is within the coastline first charted by Matthew Flinders on 9 February 1802, it is not named by Flinders possibly due to the coastline being obscured by a thick haze. The cape is reported as being one of the sixteen features named in South Australia after Blanche Ann Skurray, the wife of Richard Graves MacDonnell, the sixth Governor of South Australia who served from 1855 to 1862.[1]
Location
The cape has been within the boundary of the Cape Blanche Conservation Park since 2012 while the waters adjoining its shoreline have been within a sanctuary zone in the West Coast Bays Marine Park also since 2012.[2] [3] [4] [5]
Notes and References
- Book: Flinders, Matthew. Matthew Flinders. 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.. https://archive.today/20150504103542/http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=1486723&pageno=221 . dead . 4 May 2015 . 5 January 2014. Facsimile. 1966. 1814. Libraries Board of South Australia. Adelaide. 221 .
- Web site: Search for feature SA0007257 (Cape Blanche (SA)). Geoscience Australia . 6 April 2015.
- Web site: West Coast Bays Marine Park Management Plan 2012. Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources. 2 April 2015. 23. 2012.
- Web site: C. C. . Manhood . MacDonnell, Sir Richard Graves (1814–1881) . . . 7 April 2015.
- Web site: The Manning Index - Blanche Cup . State Library of South Australia . 6 April 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060825201815/http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/manning/pn/b/b18.htm . 25 August 2006 . dmy-all .
