Cape Burr Explained

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Cape Burr
State:SA
Coordinates:-34.1228°N 136.3567°W

Cape Burr is a headland in the Australian state of South Australia on the east coast of Eyre Peninsula in the gazetted locality of Port Neill about 0.5km (00.3miles) east of the locality's town centre. It is the southern extremity of Dutton Bay.[1] The cape is one of several geographical features named during the first land-based European exploration of the eastern coast of Eyre Peninsula in 1840 by George Gawler, the Governor of South Australia. It was named after Thomas Burr, the Deputy Surveyor General of South Australia, who was one of those in the party accompanying Gawler.[2] [3]

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  1. Web site: Search result for "Cape Burr (CAPE)" (Record no SA0011179) with the following layers being selected - "Suburbs and Localities"and "Place names (gazetteer)". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. 4 May 2017. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/. 12 October 2016. dmy-all.
  2. Web site: Somerville. J. D.. Early days of Eyre Peninsula, Governor Gawler's view on Port Lincoln. Port Lincoln Times. 1 December 2014. 42. 15 January 1937 .
  3. Web site: The Southern Australian. Quid perum atque decens curo, et roge, et omnts in hoc sum. Southern Australian. 1 December 2014. 3. 9 April 1840.