South East Cape
{{Short description|Southernmost point of Australia when including Tasmania}}
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| Official_name = Tasmanian Wilderness
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South East Cape is a cape located at the southernmost point of the main island of Tasmania, the southernmost state in Australia.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article26063624 |title=SOUTH-EAST CAPE — TASMANIA'S END. |newspaper=The Mercury |location=Hobart, Tasmania |date=18 May 1945 |accessdate=29 June 2015 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}} The cape is situated in the southern and south-eastern corner of the Southwest National Park, part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, approximately {{convert|94|km}} southwest of Hobart in Tasmania and about {{convert|65|km}} east and slightly south of South West Cape. South East Cape marks the official dividing line between the Pacific and Indian Oceans.[http://www.iho.int/mtg_docs/com_wg/S-23WG/S-23WG_Misc/Draft_2002/S-23_Draft_2002_INDIAN_OCEAN.doc Limits of Oceans and Seas] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150606055041/http://www.iho.int/mtg_docs/com_wg/S-23WG/S-23WG_Misc/Draft_2002/S-23_Draft_2002_INDIAN_OCEAN.doc |date=6 June 2015 }}. International Hydrographic Organization Special Publication No. 23, 1953.
Location and features
File:Tasmania South Cape Bay panorama.jpg
South East Cape is the southernmost point of the mainland of Tasmania but not of the state of Tasmania. The Maatsuyker Islands and the Pedra Branca island group, just offshore, are also part of the state of Tasmania and lie further south than South East Cape. The state of Tasmania also includes Macquarie Island, which is about 1,600 km SE of South East Cape.
South East Cape is one of the five southernmost capes that can be rounded by sailors in the earth's southern regions.
The cape is also a reference point for sectors of the southern coastline of Tasmania.{{Citation | author1=Nash, Michael | author2=Tasmania. Dept. of Lands, Parks and Wildlife | title=A maritime archaeological survey of South East Tasmania: Cape Raoul to South East Cape | publication-date=1988 | publisher=Department of Lands, Parks and Wildlife | isbn=978-0-7246-2113-2 }} Much sea traffic passes near it, and many ships and boats have been wrecked or grounded there.{{Citation | author1=Tasmania. Navigation and Survey Authority | title=Foundering of FV "Tasmanian Enterprise", South East Cape, on 13 April 1995 | publication-date=1995 | publisher=Navigation and Survey Authority of Tasmania | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/184367503 | accessdate=29 June 2015 }}
See also
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References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20091126004145/http://www.ga.gov.au/education/geoscience-basics/dimensions/continental-extremities.jsp Continental Extremities of Australia]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070918065703/http://www.ga.gov.au/image_cache/GA3324.jpg Picture of South East Cape]
- [http://www.winnem.com/siec/nsweers_island.htm#1642 Map of the area with South East Cape on the right edge, South Cape, South West Cape, the Maatsuyker Islands with De Witt Island, The Sisters and Maatsuyker Island]
- [http://www.vision.net.au/~jennings/maatsuyker/maat2.html Another map of the area between South East Cape and South West Cape and the Maatsuyker Islands]
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