Cape Carnot

Place in South Australia

34°56′47.1″S 135°37′32.2″E / 34.946417°S 135.625611°E / -34.946417; 135.625611Elevation89 m (292 ft)^[1]Location30 km (19 mi) south west of Port Lincoln

Cape Carnot (French: Cap Carnot) is a headland in the Australian state of South Australia located on the west side of the southern tip of Eyre Peninsula about 30 kilometres (19 miles) south west of the city of Port Lincoln.^[2] The Eyre Peninsula has a double tip; the other tip, 3 nautical miles (5.6 kilometres; 3.5 miles) to the east, is Cape Wiles. Cape Carnot is one of a number of coastal features first discovered but not subsequently named by Matthew Flinders in February 1802 and which remained unnamed. In 1913, the Government of South Australia gave the unnamed feature the name proposed by the Baudin expedition when it visited in April 1802. The name Cape Carnot honours Lazare Carnot who is notable as a "French mathematician, general and statesman, who played a prominent part in the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era".^[1]^[3]^[4]

The cape is considered by the Australian Hydrographic Service to be the eastern end of the Great Australian Bight. Since 2012, the waters adjoining its shoreline are within a habitat protection zone in the Thorny Passage Marine Park.^[5]^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b Sailing Directions (Enroute), Pub. 175: North, West, and South Coasts of Australia (PDF). Sailing Directions. United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2017. p. 182.
^ "Search for feature SA0012527 (Cape Carnot)". Geoscience Australia. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
^ "The Commonwealth". The Register. 17 July 1913. p. 9. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
^ "Early whaling operations in Sleaford Bay, Station established there in 1837, Historical review of western coastline". Port Lincoln Times. 15 June 1934. p. 5. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
^ "AHS – AA609582" (PDF) (PDF). The Australian Hydrographic Service. 5 July 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2013. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
^ "Thorny Passage Marine Park Management Plan 2012" (PDF). Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources. 2012. pp. 24/31. Retrieved 3 April 2014.

Eyre Peninsula, South Australia

Cities

Port Augusta (western suburbs only)
Port Lincoln
Whyalla

Townships

Governance

Federal division	Grey (part)
State electoral districts	Flinders Giles Stuart
Local Government	Ceduna DC Cleve DC Elliston DC Franklin Harbour DC Kimba DC Lower Eyre Peninsula DC City of Port Augusta (part) City of Port Lincoln Streaky Bay DC Tumby Bay DC City of Whyalla Wudinna DC

Protected areas

Coastal features

West coast	Anxious Bay Calca Peninsula Cape Blanche Cape Carnot Cape Catastrophe Cape Finniss Cape Radstock Cape Wiles Coffin Bay Peninsula Jussieu Peninsula Mount Dutton Bay Point Avoid Point Labatt Point Weyland Point Whidbey Slade Point Sleaford Bay Fishery Bay
East coast	Cape Burr Cape Donington Cape Hardy Lipson Cove Lucky Bay Memory Cove Point Boston Point Lowly Yorkey Crossing

Islands adjoining Eyre Peninsula coast

West coast	Baird Bay Jones Island Unnamed island, Baird Bay Eba Island Grantham Island Nicolas Baudin Island Pigface Island
East coast	Bicker Isles Boston Island Curlew Island Entrance Island Lipson Island Little Island Louth Island Tumby Island

Infrastructure

Highways	Birdseye Highway Eyre Highway (part) Flinders Highway Lincoln Highway Tod Highway
Railways	BHP Whyalla Tramway Coffin Bay Tramway Eyre Peninsula Railway Port Lincoln railway station
Other	Joy Baluch AM Bridge Tod Reservoir

Related and uncategorised

The Peninsulas zone (wine)

v t e Australian places named by French explorers in the 18th and 19th centuries
South Australia	Cape Bedout Cape Borda Cape Bouguer Cape Carnot Cape du Couedic Casuarina Islets (Ilots du Cassuarina) D'Estrees Bay (Baie D'Estrees) Dorothee Island (Ile Dorothee) Fleurieu Peninsula Cape Forbin Cape Gantheaume Guichen Bay (Baie de Guichen) Jussieu Peninsula Lacepede Bay Maupertuis Bay (Baie Maupertuis) Fenelon Island Masillon Island Ravine des Casoars Rivoli Bay (Baie de Rivoli) Cape Thevenard Veteran Isles (Ile du Veteran) Vivonne Bay (Baie Vivonne)
Western Australia	Cape Bouvard Cape Clairault Cape Freycinet Cape Mentelle Cape Naturaliste Faure Island Gantheaume Point Geographe Bay Lancelin Island Middle Island (Iles du Milieu) Peron Peninsula Recherche Archipelago (L’Archipel de la Recherche)
Only places with the name still in use in either the original or anglicised version are listed above. Many names have been anglicised; for these the original French name appears in brackets.