{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2014}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2014}} {{Infobox Australian place | type = other | name = Cape du Couedic | state = SA | image = Cape du Couedic lighthouse at sunset.jpg | caption = Cape du Couedic at sunset | elevation = 78 | elevation_footnotes = <ref>{{Cite rowlett|sa|access-date=23 June 2014}}</ref> | coordinates = {{coord|36.061116|S|136.698684|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}<ref name="LMV">{{cite web |title=Search results for 'Cape du Couedic' with the following datasets selected - 'NPW and Conservation Reserve Boundaries', 'Suburbs and Localities' and 'Gazetteer' |url=http://location.sa.gov.au/viewer/?map=roads&x=136.76952&y=-35.98541&z=10&uids=42,19,105&pinx=136.700090&piny=-36.059690&pinTitle=Location&pinText=Cape+Du+Couedic,+Cape |website=Location SA Map Viewer |publisher=South Australian government |access-date=5 August 2018}}</ref> }}
'''Cape du Couedic''' is a [[headland]] in the Australian state of [[South Australia]] located on the southwest tip of [[Kangaroo Island]] in the locality of [[Flinders Chase, South Australia|Flinders Chase]]. It was named after a French naval officer, {{ill|Charles Louis du Couëdic de Kergoualer|fr|Charles Louis du Couëdic}}, by the [[Baudin expedition to Australia]] during January 1803. It is the site for the [[Cape du Couedic Lighthouse]]. It is currently located within the [[Flinders Chase National Park]].
==Description== Cape du Couedic is located {{convert|96|km|abbr=off}} southwest of the municipal seat of [[Kingscote, South Australia|Kingscote]] at the most southwesterly point of the Kangaroo Island coast. It is the termination for a pair of coastlines - the western coastline extending from [[Cape Borda]] in the north and the southern coastline extending from [[Cape Willoughby]] in the east. It is described as "a narrow promontory about 1 mile long" (i.e. {{convert|1|nmi|km mi|abbr=off}}) and that "its SW face slopes to the sea whereas its N and S sides are steep."<ref name=Chart14>{{Citation | author1=South Australia. Department of Marine and Harbors | title=The Waters of South Australia a series of charts, sailing notes and coastal photographs | publication-date=1985 | publisher=Dept. of Marine and Harbors, South Australia | pages= Chart 14|isbn=978-0-7243-7603-2 }}</ref><ref name=Pub175>{{cite enroute|175|2017|212}}</ref>
==Formation, geology & oceanography == Cape du Couedic was formed when the sea reached its present level 7,500 years ago after sea levels started to rise at the start of the [[Holocene]].<ref name=BSKIpage26>{{cite book|title=A Biological Survey of Kangaroo Island, South Australia, 1989 & 1990|publisher=Heritage and Biodiversity Section, Department for Environment, Heritage and Aboriginal Affairs, South Australia|location=Adelaide, SA|isbn=0 7308 5862 6 |pages=26|url=http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/files/fb13b9bf-5c8e-445c-9c3c-a1c600c14815/ki-biological-survey-climate-geology-landuse-gen.pdf|editor1=Robinson, A. C. |editor2=Armstrong, D. M. |access-date=1 May 2014}}</ref> The cliff line which includes Cape du Couedic consists of a metamorphic rock belonging to the [[Kanmantoo group]] bedrock called Middleton Sandstone.<ref name=BSKIpage26/><ref name=MESA47page28>{{cite journal | last = Fairclough | first = Martin C | title = KINGSCOTE Special 1:250 000 geological map| journal = MESA Journal | volume = 47 | pages = 28–31 | publisher = Government of South Australia, DMITRE | date = December 2007 | url = https://sarigbasis.pir.sa.gov.au/WebtopEw/ws/samref/gui/image/DDD/MESAJ047.pdf. | issn = 1326-3544 | access-date = 18 May 2014}}</ref> The water adjoining Cape du Couedic drops to depths ranging between {{convert|20|m|abbr=off}} to {{convert|30|m|abbr=off}} at the base of its cliff face.<ref name=MESA47page28/> [[File:Cape de Couedic.jpg|thumb|Cape du Couedic]] Cape du Couedic is one of twenty geological features on Kangaroo Island that have been listed as a geological monument by the [[Geological Society of Australia]].<ref>{{Citation | author1=Kangaroo Island Natural Resources Management Board | title=Here to stay for our children and grandchildren : a natural resources management plan for the Kangaroo Island region 2009 | volume=1 | pages=88–89 | publication-date=2009 | url=http://www.naturalresources.sa.gov.au/files/6c638870-9796-48ce-b54d-a1e300902b8e/vol-1-state-of-the-region-2009-plan.pdf | publisher=Kangaroo Island Natural Resources Management Board | isbn=978-1-921595-00-4 | access-date=13 September 2016 | archive-date=13 September 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160913210707/http://www.naturalresources.sa.gov.au/files/6c638870-9796-48ce-b54d-a1e300902b8e/vol-1-state-of-the-region-2009-plan.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref>
==History== ===Aboriginal use=== [[Aboriginal Australians|Aboriginal]] sites have been identified by the [[South Australian Museum]] at Cape du Couedic. As of 1999, [[radiocarbon dating]] of material recovered via archaeological excavation from sites at Cape du Couedic and Rocky River suggest Aboriginal presence in the western end of Kangaroo Island from approximately 7,500 years [[Before Present|BP]] to as recent as 350–400 years BP.<ref>{{cite web|title= Flinders Chase National Park, Kelly Hill Conservation Park, Ravine des Casoars Wilderness Protection Area and Cape Bouguer Wilderness Protection Area Management Plans |url=http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/files/937b2d35-3d3e-41f0-9e9e-9e4f00b1a9a9/PARKS_PDFS_KI_MISC_MP.pdf |publisher= Department for Environment, Heritage and Aboriginal Affairs |access-date=1 May 2014|pages=37|year=1999}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=A Biological Survey of Kangaroo Island, South Australia, 1989 & 1990|publisher=Heritage and Biodiversity Section, Department for Environment, Heritage and Aboriginal Affairs, South Australia|location=Adelaide, SA|isbn=0 7308 5862 6|pages=34–35|url=http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/files/fb13b9bf-5c8e-445c-9c3c-a1c600c14815/ki-biological-survey-climate-geology-landuse-gen.pdf|editor1=Robinson, A. C. |editor2=Armstrong, D. M. |access-date=1 May 2014}}</ref>
===European discovery=== Cape du Couedic was named in January 1803 by the [[Baudin expedition to Australia|Baudin expedition of 1800-03]] in the memory of Charles Louis Chevalier du Couëdic de Kergoualer (1740–1780), a French naval officer, who commanded the frigate [[French frigate Surveillante (1778)|''La Surveilante'']] and who died in 1780 as the result of wounds received in the [[action of 6 October 1779]] against HMS ''Quebec''.<ref name= page119>{{cite web|last=Robinson|first=A. C.|title=South Australia's offshore islands|url=http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/files/5a7dbb25-70b9-4ceb-bbfd-a25800961994/offshore-islands-gen.pdf|publisher=Australian Heritage Commission|access-date=13 December 2013 |author2=Canty, P. |author3=Mooney, T. |author4=Rudduck, P.|pages=119|year=1996}}</ref>{{quote request|date=June 2014}}
==Navigation aid== {{further|Cape du Couedic Lighthouse}} The loss of both ''[[Loch Vennachar]]'' and ''[[Loch Sloy]]'' convinced the Marine Board of South Australia to argue for the bringing forward of a plan that it recommended in 1902 to build a lighthouse at Cape du Couedic. Its view was that the loss of both ships could have been avoided if a lighthouse had been operating at Cape du Couedic. Construction commenced in 1907 and the light was officially lit on 27 June 1909.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lighthouse, Cape Du Couedic Rd, Parndana, SA, Australia|url=http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl?mode=place_detail;place_id=7436|publisher=Department of the Environment|access-date=23 June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title= Lighthouse for Cape Couedie |url= http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55638233|access-date=8 October 2013|newspaper=The Register (Adelaide, SA)|date= 12 May 1906|page= 6}}</ref>
==Protected area status== Cape du Couedic is currently located within the protected area known as the [[Flinders Chase National Park]].<ref>{{cite web|title= Flinders Chase National Park, Kelly Hill Conservation Park, Ravine des Casoars Wilderness Protection Area and Cape Bouguer Wilderness Protection Area Management Plans |url= http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/files/937b2d35-3d3e-41f0-9e9e-9e4f00b1a9a9/PARKS_PDFS_KI_MISC_MP.pdf |publisher= Department for Environment, Heritage and Aboriginal Affairs |access-date=1 May 2014|pages=5|year=1999}}</ref> As of 2012, the waters surrounding its shores are part of a combined restricted access and sanctuary zone located within the boundaries of the [[Western Kangaroo Island Marine Park (state waters)|Western Kangaroo Island Marine Park]].<ref>{{cite web|title= Western Kangaroo Island Park Management plan summary|url= http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/files/5531fc53-c6cf-4f8c-b518-a11700a1d969/mp-gen-16westernkangarooisland-managementplan.pdf |publisher=Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources|access-date=23 June 2014|page=27 of 29}}</ref>
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==See also== *[[Casuarina Islets]]
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