Point Weyland Explained

Type:	other
Point Weyland
State:	SA
Elevation:	89
Coordinates:	-33.245°N 134.6307°W
Dist1:	51
Dir1:	north north-west
Location1:	Elliston

Point Weyland is a headland located on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia about 4km (02miles) west south-west of the town of Venus Bay and about 51km (32miles) north north-west of the town of Elliston. The point which is located within Anxious Bay is the southern extremity of the opening to Venus Bay. The point is described by one source as being "a conspicuous cliffy point, 89m (292feet) high, stands close S[outh] W[est] of the entrance of Venus Bay" and "rises to a height of 96m (315feet), close N[orth] and slopes inland toward Venus Bay". It was named by Matthew Flinders on 10 February 1802. The point has been within the boundary of the Venus Bay Conservation Park since 1977 while the waters adjoining its shoreline have been within a habitat protection zone in the West Coast Bays Marine Park since 2012.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Search for feature SA0071395 (Point Weyland (SA)). Geoscience Australia . 5 April 2015.
2. Web site: Venus Bay Conservation Park Management Plan, . Department for Environment and Heritage . 26 October 2014. 2006. 1.
3. Web site: West Coast Bays Marine Park Management Plan 2012. Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources. 2 April 2015. 25–26. 2012.
4. 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.. 5 January 2014. Facsimile. 1966. 1814. Libraries Board of South Australia. Adelaide. 221 .