Point Whidbey Explained

Type:	other
Point Whidbey
State:	SA
Coordinates:	-34.5883°N 135.1092°W
Dist1:	34
Dir1:	west
Location1:	Coffin Bay.

Point Whidbey is a headland located at the southern western extremity of both Coffin Bay Peninsula and Avoid Bay on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia about 34km (21miles) west of the town of Coffin Bay. It was described in 2012 as being “fronted by low cliffs and rises to a round hill, 62m (203feet) high, about 1 mile inland.” It is one of the features named by Matthew Flinders in February 1802 after his friend and Royal Navy officer, Joseph Whidbey. The point is currently located within the boundaries of the protected area, the Coffin Bay National Park.^{[1] [2]}

Notes and References

1. 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. 225 .
2. Web site: Parks of the Coffin Bay Area Management Plan . Department for Environment and Heritage . 21 October 2014. 2004. 3.