Cape Naturaliste

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Cape Naturaliste
Location: Western Australia
Year first lit: 1904
Height: 23 meters
Elevation: 123 Metres
Intensity: 930,000 cd
Range: 25 nautical miles

Cape Naturaliste Is a headland, and lighthouse location in the south west region of Western Australia

The source of the name (and northern most point of) of the Leeuwin-Naturaliste Ridge, and the Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park and also the Cape to Cape walk track.

It is at the western point of the Geographe Bay, Western Australia.

The nearest settlement is Bunker Bay - a community that evolved from holiday shacks to very expensive housing for very wealthy residents. Further east across the Bay is Dunsborough- a much older community, then further east Busselton

[edit] References

  • Fornasiero, Jean; Monteath, Peter and West-Sooby, John. Encountering Terra Australis: the Australian voyages of Nicholas Baudin and Matthew Flinders, Kent Town, South Australia,Wakefield Press,2004. ISBN 1-86254-625-8
  • Marchant, Leslie R. French Napoleonic Placenames of the South West Coast, Greenwood, WA. R.I.C. Publications, 2004. ISBN 1-74126-094-9

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Coordinates: 33°31′S 115°00′E