{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date= March 2015}} {{Infobox Australian place | type = other | name = Cape Carnot | state = SA | image = Cape Carnot(GN14450).jpg | caption = [[File:Cape Carnot(GN14452).jpg|270px]] | pop = | pop_footnotes = | est = | postcode = | elevation = 89 | elevation_footnotes =<ref name=NGA/> | coordinates = {{coord|34|56|47.1|S|135|37|32.2|E|display=inline,title}} | dist1 = 30 | dir1 = south west | location1 = [[Port Lincoln]] | lga = | stategov = | fedgov = | maxtemp = | mintemp = | rainfall = | near-e = | near-se = | near-s = | near-sw = | near-w = | near-nw = | near-n = | near-ne = }} '''Cape Carnot''' ({{langx|fr|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 {{convert|30|km|abbr=off}} south west of the city of [[Port Lincoln]].<ref name=gazateer>{{cite web|title= Search for feature SA0012527 (Cape Carnot)|url= http://www.ga.gov.au/place-names/index.xhtml |publisher= Geoscience Australia |accessdate=26 March 2015}}</ref> The Eyre Peninsula has a double tip; the other tip, {{convert|3|nmi|abbr=off}} 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".<ref name=NGA>{{cite enroute|175|2017|182}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The Commonwealth |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60061418|accessdate=26 March 2015|newspaper=The Register|date=17 July 1913|page=9}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Early whaling operations in Sleaford Bay, Station established there in 1837, Historical review of western coastline|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article96616607|accessdate=26 March 2015|newspaper=Port Lincoln Times|date=15 June 1934|page=5}}</ref>
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]].<ref name=ahs>{{cite web|url=http://www.hydro.gov.au/factsheets/WFS_Names_and_Limits_of_Oceans_and_Seas_Around_Australia.pdf|title=AHS – AA609582|publisher=The Australian Hydrographic Service|date=5 July 2012|accessdate=26 March 2015|type=PDF|archive-date=15 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515180605/http://www.hydro.gov.au/factsheets/WFS_Names_and_Limits_of_Oceans_and_Seas_Around_Australia.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=ThornyMP>{{cite web|title= Thorny Passage Marine Park Management Plan 2012|url=http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/files/2abee117-f53f-48fb-94c9-a117009e53d6/mp-gen-5thornypassage-managementplan.pdf|publisher=Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources|accessdate=3 April 2014|pages=24/31|year=2012}}</ref>
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{{Eyre Peninsula}} {{AusplacesnamedbyFrench |state=autocollapse}}
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