Cape Donington

Cape Donington South Australia
Cape Donington
Coordinates	34°44′S 136°0′E / 34.733°S 136.000°ECoordinates: 34°44′S 136°0′E / 34.733°S 136.000°E
Elevation	53 m (174 ft)[1]
Location	10 km (6 mi) east of Port Lincoln
Localities around Cape Donington: Spencer Gulf Spencer Gulf Spencer Gulf Port Lincoln Cape Donington Spencer Gulf Jussieu Peninsula Jussieu Peninsula Spencer Gulf

Cape Donington is a headland located at the most northerly part of the Jussieu Peninsula on the east coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) east of the city of Port Lincoln. It is the southern entrance point for the natural harbour known as Port Lincoln. The cape is described by one source as being ‘the N(orth) extremity of a peninsula which extends 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) N(orth) from the coast’, that ‘this extension forms the E(ast) side of Spalding Cove’ and that ‘about 0.5 nautical miles (0.93 km; 0.58 mi) S(outh) W(est) of the cape, the land rises to a wooded summit, 53 metres (174 ft) high.’ It was named by the Royal Navy officer, Matthew Flinders, on 25 February 1802 reportedly after ‘his native village in Lincolnshire.’ The land around Cape Donington was first used for agricultural purposes in 1875. A navigation aid consisting of a light was installed in 1905 and was subsequently replaced by a lighthouse. After 1972, the land was added to the Lincoln National Park with a parcel of land sized at 4 hectares (9.9 acres) being leased to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority for the purpose of operating the lighthouse.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}

See also

• Donington, Lincolnshire

References

1. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (2010). Pub175, Sailing directions (enroute) north, west, and south coast of Australia (PDF) (10th ed.). National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). p. 174. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
2. "Lincoln National Park Management Plan" (PDF). Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources. 2004. pp. 7, 26 & 36. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
3. "Donington, Cape". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
4. Royal Australian Navy Hydrographic Service Hydrographic Department, (1983). Port Lincoln and approaches (chart no. Aus 134).
5. Boating Industry Association of South Australia (BIA); South Australia. Department for Environment and Heritage (2005), South Australia's waters an atlas & guide, Boating Industry Association of South Australia, p. 215, ISBN 978-1-86254-680-6
6. Flinders, Matthew (1966) [1814]. A Voyage to Terra Australis : undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803 in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland Schooner; with an account of the shipwreck of the Porpoise, arrival of the Cumberland at Mauritius, and imprisonment of the commander during six years and a half in that island. (Facsimile ed.). Adelaide; Facsimile reprint of: London : G. and W. Nicol, 1814 ed. In two volumes, with an Atlas (3 volumes): Libraries Board of South Australia. p. 233. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
7. Parsons, Ronald (1985), Lighthouses of South Australia, R. Parsons, p. 15, ISBN 978-0-909418-35-9