Cape St Albans

Cape St Albans
Willoughby, South Australia
Cape St Albans Lighthouse
Cape St Albans is located in South Australia
Cape St Albans
Cape St Albans
Coordinates35°48′13″S 138°07′26″E / 35.803734°S 138.123854°E / -35.803734; 138.123854[1]
Location18 km (11 mi) south east of Penneshaw[2]

Cape St Albans (also called Cape St Alban in some sources) is a headland in the Australian state of South Australia located on the north coast of the Dudley Peninsula on Kangaroo Island in the gazetted locality of Willoughby about 18 kilometres (11 miles) south-east of the town of Penneshaw.[1][2]

The cape is described as lying "about 2.25 nautical miles (4.17 km) N(orth) of Cape Willoughby and extends in a N[ortherly] direction as a narrow neck of land."[3] The cape serves both as the east headland of Antechamber Bay and as the west headland of Moncrieff Bay. It was named after the town of St Albans in Hertfordshire by Thomas Lipson on 21 March 1850. The cape is the site of a navigation aid which was initially a temporary fixed light installed during early 1908 and which was subsequently replaced by a lighthouse that was first lit in November 1908.[4][5][2][6]

As of late 2012, the waters adjoining its shoreline are within the protected area known as the Encounter Marine Park.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b "Search results for "Cape St Albans" with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and localities' and 'Gazetteer'". Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  2. ^ a b c South Australia. Department of Marine and Harbors (1985), The Waters of South Australia a series of charts, sailing notes and coastal photographs, Dept. of Marine and Harbors, South Australia, pp. Chart 11, ISBN 978-0-7243-7603-2
  3. ^ Sailing Directions (Enroute), Pub. 175: North, West, and South Coasts of Australia (PDF). Sailing Directions. United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2017. p. 215.
  4. ^ "Cape St Alban's Lighthouse". The Register. 20 November 1908. p. 4. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  5. ^ "Backstairs Passage Light". The Register. 20 February 1908. p. 4. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  6. ^ "K.I. Names". Chronicle. 4 January 1951. p. 23. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  7. ^ "Encounter Marine Park Management plan summary" (PDF). Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. p. 38 of 39. Retrieved 17 June 2014.