Cape Banks

{{About|the headland in South Australia|the nearby lighthouse |Cape Banks Lighthouse|the northern headland of Botany Bay| Cape Banks (New South Wales) }} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2014}} {{Use Australian English|date= November 2014}} {{Infobox Australian place | type = other | name = Cape Banks | state = sa | image = Cape Banks Lighthouse(GN02656).jpg | caption = Cape Banks Lighthouse | coordinates = {{coord|37.920467|S|140.395494|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | coord_ref = <ref name="LMV">{{cite web |title=Search results for 'Cape Banks' with the following datasets selected - 'NPW and Conservation Properties', 'Suburbs and Localities' and 'Gazetteer' |url=http://location.sa.gov.au/viewer/?map=roads&x=140.41599&y=-37.9139&z=13&uids=41,19,105&pinx=140.396890&piny=-37.919010&pinTitle=Location&pinText=Cape+Banks,+Cape |website=Location SA Map Viewer |publisher=Government of South Australia |accessdate=19 December 2018}}</ref> | elevation = 15 | elevation_footnotes = <ref name=NGA219>{{cite enroute|175|2017|231}}</ref> | dist1 = 36 | dir1 = west south-west | location1 = Mount Gambier }} '''Cape Banks''' is a headland in the Australian state of South Australia located in the gazetted locality of Carpenter Rocks at the south end of Bucks Bay and the north end of Bungaloo Bay on the state's south east coast about {{convert|36|km|abbr=off}} west south west of the city of Mount Gambier.<ref name="LMV"/>

The cape is described by one source as being "a rocky point, {{convert|15|m|abbr=off}} high, {{convert|24|nmi|abbr=off}} SSE of Cape Buffon" while another source describes it as ‘a cuspate foreland protruding {{convert|500|m|abbr=off}} seaward in lee of calcarenite rocks and reefs’.<ref name=NGA219/><ref>{{cite web|title=Cape Banks UNPATROLLED BEACH|url=http://beachsafe.org.au/beach/sa0043|publisher=Surf Life Saving Australia|accessdate=25 November 2014}}</ref>

It was named by the Royal Navy officer, James Grant, on 3 December 1800.<ref name="LMV"/>

The passenger steamer ''Admella'' was wrecked on a reef near Cape Banks in 1859, on a trip from Port Adelaide to Melbourne, with great loss of life, as rescue boats could not get close enough to rescue survivors.<ref>{{cite web | title=Wreck of the Admella | website=Graham Jaunay | url=http://www.jaunay.com/admella.html | access-date=17 June 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article64397192 |title=ADMELLA WRECK |newspaper=Portland Guardian |volume=XCVII |location=Victoria, Australia |date=26 August 1940 |access-date=17 June 2024 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref>

The navigation aid known as the Cape Banks Lighthouse is not located on the cape, but on an unnamed headland located at the northern end of Lighthouse Bay which is the next bay to the north-west of Bucks Bay.<ref name="LMV"/><ref name="LMV-LH">{{cite web |title=Search results for 'Cape Banks Lighthouse' with the following datasets selected - 'NPW and Conservation Properties', 'Suburbs and Localities' and 'Gazetteer' |url=http://location.sa.gov.au/viewer/?map=roads&x=140.39815&y=-37.90301&z=13&uids=41,19,105&pinx=140.376460&piny=-37.897610&pinTitle=Location&pinText=Cape+Banks+Lighthouse,+Lh |website=Location SA Map Viewer |publisher=Government of South Australia |accessdate=19 December 2018}}</ref><ref name=NYD1883>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article33754022 |title=COUNTRY TELEGRAMS. |newspaper=The South Australian Advertiser |volume=XXV |issue=7552 |location=South Australia |date=2 January 1883 |accessdate=14 May 2017 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref name=BIA>{{Citation | author1=Boating Industry Association of South Australia (BIA) | author2=South Australia. Department for Environment and Heritage | title=South Australia's waters an atlas & guide | date=2005 | publisher=Boating Industry Association of South Australia|page=178| isbn=978-1-86254-680-6 }}</ref>

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