Point Avoid Explained

Type:	other
Point Avoid
State:	SA
Elevation:	46
Coordinates:	-34.6806°N 135.3214°W
Dist1:	15
Dir1:	south west
Location1:	Coffin Bay

Point Avoid is a headland located at the south eastern extremity of both Coffin Bay Peninsula and Avoid Bay on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia about 15km (09miles) south west of the town of Coffin Bay. It was described in 2017 as being “fronted on all of its seaward sides by limestone cliffs, about 46m (151feet) high, which change abruptly to sand hills E of its extremity.” It was named by Matthew Flinders on 17 February 1802 to acknowledge the navigational hazards present around its shores. The point is currently located within the boundaries of the protected area, the Coffin Bay National Park.^{[1] [2] [3]}

External links

• Point Avoid - Beachsafe
• Point Avoid - Surfing Atlas

Notes and References

1. Web site: Search for feature SA0082065 (Point Avoid, also known as Pointe Feuillee). Geoscience Australia . 27 February 2015.
2. 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. . 27 March 2013 . Facsimile . 1966 . 1814 . Libraries Board of South Australia . Adelaide. 226 .
3. Web site: Parks of the Coffin Bay Area Management Plan . Department for Environment and Heritage . 21 October 2014. 2004. 3.