Sandy Cape

Sandy Cape is Fraser Island's most northerly point

Sandy Cape (also known by the Indigenous name of Woakoh) is the most northern point on Fraser Island (also known as K'gari and Gari) off the coast of Queensland, Australia.^[1]^[2] The place was named Sandy Cape for its appearance by James Cook during his 1770 voyage up the eastern coast of Australia aboard the Endeavour.^[1]

Geography

Sandy Cape on topo map sheet

To the south the next two ocean headlands are Waddy Point and Indian Head (the latter was also named by Cook noting "...on which a number of Natives were assembled..." and is also known as Tukkee in the Badtjala language, meaning stone or stone knife).^[3]^[4]^[5]

The cape is protected within the K'gari section of the Great Sandy National Park. BreakSea Spit extends about 30 kilometres (19 mi) north of Sandy Cape.^[6] Nesting loggerhead and green turtles use the remote, sandy location as a rookery.^[7] Nighttime driving along the beach at Sandy Cape is banned during the nesting season. The vegetation at the cape is stunted and windswept.^[6] The foredunes are lightly covered by spinifex grass.

History

Students and teacher at the Sandy Cape Provisional School, 1912

Matthew Flinders, travelling aboard the Investigator, landed at Sandy Cape in 1802^[8] and noted the desolate landscape. In August 1803, the ships Cato and Porpoise were both sunk off the cape in bad weather.

In late December 1842, HMS Fly anchored behind Sandy Cape where some crewmen and naturalists went ashore and commented on the poor sparse surroundings. The Fly returned in April 1845 and took water from an abundant supply behind the beach and about 7 miles within the Cape.

The Seabelle was wrecked in 1857, the American Bark "Panama"^[9] in 1864, and the Chang Chow in 1884 in waters closer to the cape which may contain hidden sandbars.^[6] Because of the number of shipwrecks in the vicinity the Sandy Cape Light was constructed in 1870. This marked the first permanent European settlement on Fraser Island.^[10]

Sandy Cape Provisional School opened in September 1870, initially to provide schooling for the children of the four lighthouse keepers.^[11] By 1878, there were "30 to 40" children in the area.^[12] The school closed circa 1918.^[13]^[14]

The SS Marloo was wrecked in September 1914 on a shoal off Sandy Cape and was beached north of Waddy Point.^[15]

Clement Lindley Wragge set up an extensive network of weather stations around Queensland, including one at Sandy Cape in 1891.^[16] The cape is still used as a reference point for weather observations;^[17] however from May 2015, it has been downgraded to a daily observation,^[17] compared with the half-hourly observations at some other weather stations.^[18]

Tourism

Vehicle access to Sandy Cape is only available by the eastern beach at low tide.^[6] Camping is permitted in the area and it is a popular location with anglers.

See also

References

^ ^a ^b "Sandy Cape – cape in the Fraser Coast Region (entry 29635)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
^ "Fraser Island – island in the Fraser Coast Region (entry 47533)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
^ Hema Maps (1997). Discover Australia's National Parks. Milsons Point, New South Wales: Random House Australia. p. 174. ISBN 1-875992-47-2.
^ "Waddy Point – point in the Fraser Coast Region (entry 36121)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
^ "Indian Head – cape in the Fraser Coast Region (entry 47541)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Hinchliffe, David; Julie Hinchliffe (2006). Explore Fraser Island. Robe, South Australia: Great Sandy Publications. pp. 70–71. ISBN 0-9758190-0-3.
^ Jennifer Chapman (8 February 2010). "Tiny turtles start their journey". Noosa News. APN News & Media. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
^ "Fraser Coast: History". Fraser Coast Regional Council. Archived from the original on 1 October 2010. Retrieved 11 September 2010.
^ "Panama (+1864)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
^ "Fraser Island: Culture and History". Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. 19 November 2008. Archived from the original on 7 November 2012. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
^ "Sandy Cape Lighthouse School anniversary". Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay And Burnett Advertiser. No. 1431. Queensland, Australia. 7 October 1873. p. 2. Retrieved 27 July 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Maryborough". The Brisbane Courier. Vol. XXXIII, no. 3, 606. Queensland, Australia. 7 December 1878. p. 6. Retrieved 27 July 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Commonwealth Public Service". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. No. 73. Australia, Australia. 24 May 1917. p. 1154. Retrieved 27 July 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
^ Queensland Family History Society (2010), Queensland schools past and present (Version 1.01 ed.), Queensland Family History Society, ISBN 978-1-921171-26-0
^ "Protected Area - SS Marloo (entry 800001)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
^ "New Meteorological Stations". The Queenslander. Queensland, Australia. 23 May 1891. p. 997. Retrieved 1 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
^ ^a ^b "Latest Coastal Weather Observations for Sandy Cape". Australian Bureau of Meteorology. 1 February 2017. Archived from the original on 1 February 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
^ "Latest Coastal Weather Observations for Queensland". Australian Bureau of Meteorology. 1 February 2017. Archived from the original on 17 January 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2017.

v t e Australian places named on the First voyage of James Cook in 1770
Victoria	19 April: Point Hicks Ram Head 20: Cape Howe
New South Wales	21 April: Mount Dromedary Batemans Bay 22 April: Pigeon House 25 April: Red Point 28 April: Botany Bay* 6 May: Port Jackson Broken Bay 11 May: Point Stephens Port Stephens Cape Hawke 12 May: The Three Brothers 13 May: Smoky Cape 15 May: Solitary Isles Cape Byron 16 May: Mount Warning
Queensland	16 May: Point Danger 17 May: Point Lookout Cape Moreton Moreton Bay The Glass Houses 18 May: Double Island Point Wide Bay 19 May: Indian Head Sandy Cape 21 May: Hervey Bay Breaksea Spit 23 May: Bustard Bay* 25 May: Cape Capricorn 26 May: Keppel Isles 27 May: Keppel Bay Cape Manyfold 28 May: Shoalwater Bay Northumberland Isles 31 May: Pier Head 1 June: Long Isle Broad Sound 2 June: Slade Point Cape Hillsborough 3 June: Cape Conway Repulse Bay 4 June: Whitsundays Passage Pentecost Island Cape Gloucester Edgecumbe Bay Cumberland Islands 5 June: Cape Upstart 6 June: Magnetical Island Palm Isles Cleveland Bay 8 June: Halifax Bay Rockingham Bay Dunk Island Hillock Point Double Point 9 June: Frankland Islands Fitzroy Island Cape Grafton 10 June: Green Isle Trinity Bay Cape Tribulation Low Isles 13 June: Hope Islands 14 June – 4 August: Endeavour River Cape Bedford 10 August: Cape Flattery 11 August: Lizard Island* Eagle Island* 19 August: Cape Grenville Forbes Islands Bolt Head 20 August: Bird Isles Sir Charles Hardy Islands 21 August: York Cape 22 August: Possession Island* Prince of Wales' Isles 23 August: Booby Island*
*Places where Cook landed

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