{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date= March 2015}} {{Infobox Australian place | type = other | name = Cape Wiles | state = SA | image = | caption = | pop = | pop_footnotes = | est = | postcode = | elevation = 143 | elevation_footnotes =<ref name=NGA/> | coordinates = {{coord|34|56|44.3|S|135|41|3.3|E|display=inline,title}} | dist1 = 27 | 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 Wiles''' is a headland located on the west side of the southern tip of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia about {{convert|27|km|abbr=off}} south west of the city of Port Lincoln. The cape is described by one source as being the south east extremity of “a broad promontory” of which Cape Carnot is the south west extremity at a distance of {{convert|3|nmi|abbr=off}} to the west. The cape also is the western extremity of Sleaford Bay.
==Name== Cape Wiles was named by Matthew Flinders on 19 February 1802 after James Wiles, a botanist whom he described as “a worthy friend at Liguanea, in Jamaica”, along with the nearby Liguanea Island.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article96616607 |title=EARLY WHALING OPERATIONS AT SLEAFORD BAY |newspaper=Port Lincoln Times |volume=VI |issue=351 |location=South Australia |date=15 June 1934 |accessdate=9 April 2019 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Wiles had been a friend of Joseph Banks then became First Gardener on the Second Breadfruit Voyage (1791–1793) under William Bligh and Flinders had been a midshipman on the same voyage. He left the ship in Jamaica and became gardener at a public nursery, then Island Botanist. He later owned two coffee plantations.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/16597 |title=James Wiles - Profile & Legacies Summary |work=Legacies of British Slave-ownership |publisher=University College London |access-date=9 April 2019}}</ref> Wiles was a beneficiary of slavery from the British West Indies.<ref name="Coventry">{{cite journal |doi=10.17613/d8ht-p058 |year=2019 |last1=Coventry |first1=C.J. |title=Links in the Chain: British slavery, Victoria and South Australia |journal=Before/Now |volume=1 |issue=1 |page=36}}</ref> The slaves on his plantations had been valued at £4,160.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/wiles-james-1768-1851.html |title=Wiles, James (1768 - 1851) |work=Biographical Notes |publisher=Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria, Australian National Herbarium |access-date=9 April 2019}}</ref>
==Uses== The cape is the site of a high frequency radar station which is used to collect data about wind direction and wave height. Since 2012, the waters adjoining its shoreline are within a habitat protection zone in the Thorny Passage Marine Park.<ref name=NGA>{{cite enroute|175|2017|182}}</ref><ref name=gazateer>{{cite web|title= Search for feature SA0073095 (Cape Wiles (SA))|url= http://www.ga.gov.au/place-names/index.xhtml |publisher= Geoscience Australia |accessdate=26 March 2015}}</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><ref>{{cite web|title=Wiles, James (1768 - 1851)|url=https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/wiles-james-1768-1851.html|publisher=Australian National Herbarium|accessdate=27 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title= IMOS - ACORN - Cape Wiles HF ocean radar station (South Australia Gulfs, South Australia, Australia)|url=http://researchdata.ands.org.au/imos-acorn-cape-australia-australia/432235|publisher=Research Data Australia|accessdate=27 March 2015}}</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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==External links== *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsOuXPzEiUU Cape Wiles - video by Cy Starkman]
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