# Cape Carnot

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Place in South Australia

Place in South Australia, Australia

Cape Carnot Cape Carnot Coordinates: 34°56′47.1″S 135°37′32.2″E / 34.946417°S 135.625611°E / -34.946417; 135.625611 Country Australia State South Australia Location 30 km (19 mi) south west of Port Lincoln Elevation [1] 89 m (292 ft)

**Cape Carnot** ([French](/source/French_language): *Cap Carnot*) is a headland in the Australian state of [South Australia](/source/South_Australia) located on the west side of the southern tip of [Eyre Peninsula](/source/Eyre_Peninsula) about 30 kilometres (19 miles) south west of the city of [Port Lincoln](/source/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](/source/Cape_Wiles). Cape Carnot is one of a number of coastal features first discovered but not subsequently named by [Matthew Flinders](/source/Matthew_Flinders) in February 1802 and which remained unnamed. In 1913, the [Government of South Australia](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Australian_Hydrographic_Service) to be the eastern end of the [Great Australian Bight](/source/Great_Australian_Bight). Since 2012, the waters adjoining its shoreline are within a habitat protection zone in the [Thorny Passage Marine Park](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thorny_Passage_Marine_Park&action=edit&redlink=1).[5][6]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-NGA_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-NGA_1-1) [*Sailing Directions (Enroute),*Pub. 175:*North, West, and South Coasts of Australia*](https://msi.nga.mil/api/publications/download?key=16694491/SFH00000/Pub175bk.pdf&type=view) (PDF). *[Sailing Directions](/source/Sailing_Directions)*. [United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency](/source/National_Geospatial-Intelligence_Agency). 2017. p. 182.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-gazateer_2-0)** ["Search for feature SA0012527 (Cape Carnot)"](http://www.ga.gov.au/place-names/index.xhtml). Geoscience Australia. Retrieved 26 March 2015.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["The Commonwealth"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60061418). *The Register*. 17 July 1913. p. 9. Retrieved 26 March 2015.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Early whaling operations in Sleaford Bay, Station established there in 1837, Historical review of western coastline"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article96616607). *Port Lincoln Times*. 15 June 1934. p. 5. Retrieved 26 March 2015.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-ahs_5-0)** ["AHS – AA609582"](https://web.archive.org/web/20130515180605/http://www.hydro.gov.au/factsheets/WFS_Names_and_Limits_of_Oceans_and_Seas_Around_Australia.pdf) (PDF) (PDF). The Australian Hydrographic Service. 5 July 2012. Archived from [the original](http://www.hydro.gov.au/factsheets/WFS_Names_and_Limits_of_Oceans_and_Seas_Around_Australia.pdf) (PDF) on 15 May 2013. Retrieved 26 March 2015.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-ThornyMP_6-0)** ["Thorny Passage Marine Park Management Plan 2012"](http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/files/2abee117-f53f-48fb-94c9-a117009e53d6/mp-gen-5thornypassage-managementplan.pdf) (PDF). Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources. 2012. pp. 24/31. Retrieved 3 April 2014.

v t e Eyre Peninsula, South Australia Cities Port Augusta (western suburbs only) Port Lincoln Whyalla Townships Ceduna Cleve Coffin Bay Cowell Cummins Elliston Kimba Lock Smoky Bay Streaky Bay Thevenard Tumby Bay Wudinna 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 Coffin Bay National Park Gawler Ranges National Park Lake Gilles Lincoln National Park Memory Cove Wilderness Protection Area Munyaroo Conservation Park Pinkawillinie Conservation Park 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 Casuarina Islets (Îlots du Cassuarina) Cape du Couedic D'Estrees Bay (Baie d'Estrées) Dorothee Island (Île Dorothée) Fenelon Island Fleurieu Peninsula Cape Forbin Cape Gantheaume Guichen Bay (Baie de Guichen) Jussieu Peninsula Lacepede Bay Masillon Island Maupertuis Bay (Baie Maupertuis) Ravine des Casoars Rivoli Bay (Baie de Rivoli) Cape Thevenard Veteran Isles (Île du Vétéran) Vivonne Bay (Baie Vivonne) Western Australia Adele Island Bernier Island Bonaparte Archipelago Bonaparte Gulf Cape Bossut Cape Bouvard Cape Clairault Faure Island Cape Freycinet Freycinet Harbour Gantheaume Point Geographe Bay Hamelin Pool Institut Islands Cape Keraudren Lagrange Bay Lancelin Island Cape Latouche Treville Legendre Island Cape Leveque L'Haridon Bight Cape Mentelle Middle Island (Îles du Milieu) Montalivet Islands Montebello Islands Cape Naturaliste Peron Peninsula Recherche Archipelago (Archipel de la Recherche) Taillefer Isthmus Thevenard Island 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.

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