Cape Freycinet

Cape Freycinet and Contos Beach from the Cape to Cape Track

Cape Freycinet is a point on the coast of Western Australia between Cape Leeuwin and Cape Naturaliste in the southwest of the state. It is in the Shire of Augusta-Margaret River, part of Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park. Not far from the Lake Cave it is approached from Caves Road along Conto Road.

History

The cape was named in 1803 after the Freycinet family, which had two brothers – Louis Claude and Louis Henri de Saulces de Freycinet – on the Baudin expedition to Australia.[1] It is one of several French-named capes in Western Australia.

The late Leslie Marchant in his posthumous publication on French names in Western Australia insists that it is not a cape, but a point – and names it Point Freycinet counter to the established name listed by Geoscience Australia database.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Cape Freycinet". margaretriver.com.
  2. ↑ Marchant (2004).

Sources

  • Edward Duyker François Péron: An Impetuous Life: Naturalist and Voyager, Miegunyah/MUP, Melb., 2006, ISBN 978-0-522-85260-8
  • 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
  • Frank Horner, The French Reconnaissance: Baudin in Australia 1801—1803, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1987 ISBN 0-522-84339-5.
  • Marchant, Leslie R. (2004). French Napoleonic Placenames of the South West Coast. Greenwood: R.I.C. Publications. ISBN 1-74126-094-9.

34°05′S 114°59′E / 34.083°S 114.983°E / -34.083; 114.983

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