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Cape Catastrophe

Cape Catastrophe is a headland in the Australian state of South Australia located at the southeast tip of Jussieu Peninsula on Eyre Peninsula. It is one of the natural features named by the British navigator Matthew Flinders in memory of the eight crew who were lost from a cutter that capsized sometime after being launched from HM Sloop Investigator to search for water on 21 February 1802.[2] Flinders also nominated the headland as being the western point of the mouth of Spencer Gulf.[3] It is currently located within the gazetted locality of Lincoln National Park and the protected area known as the Memory Cove Wilderness Protection Area.[4][1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Search results for 'Cape Catastrophe' with the following datasets selected - 'NPW and Conservation Properties', 'Suburbs and localities' and 'Gazetteer'". Location SA Map Viewer. South Australian Government. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  2. ^ "Encounter 1802-2002: Flinders' voyage; Difficulties and disasters". State Library of South Australia. Archived from the original on 25 March 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
  3. ^ Flinders, Matthew (1966) [1814]. 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. Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia. p. 249. LCCN 66070225. OCLC 4565366. OL 38607138M. Wikidata Q133875246.
  4. ^ "Memory Cove Wilderness Protection Area Management Plan". Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources. 2005. p. 1. Retrieved 26 January 2014.