Slade Point (South Australia)

This article is about the headland in South Australia. For the locality in Queensland, see Slade Point, Queensland.
Slade Point
South Australia
Slade Point
Coordinates 33°3′19″S 134°10′5.9″E / 33.05528°S 134.168306°E / -33.05528; 134.168306Coordinates: 33°3′19″S 134°10′5.9″E / 33.05528°S 134.168306°E / -33.05528; 134.168306
Location 29 km (18 mi) south of Streaky Bay

Slade Point is a headland located on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia about 29 kilometres (18 mi) south of the town of Streaky Bay. The point is the northern extremity of Searcy Bay and the southern extremity of a promontory that separates Searcy Bay in the south east from Sceale Bay in the north west. While it is within the coastline first charted by Matthew Flinders on 9 February 1802, it is not named by Flinders possibly due to the coastline being obscured by a thick haze. Slade Point was named in 1908 after “the late Mr. W. E. Slade” who served as the Assistant Engineer of Harbours in the South Australian Government. The cape has adjoined the boundary of the Cape Blanche Conservation Park since 2012 while the waters adjoining its shoreline have been within a habitat protection zone in the West Coast Bays Marine Park also since 2012.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

References

  1. ↑ "Search for feature SA0061926 (Slade Point (SA))". Geoscience Australia. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
  2. ↑ "West Coast Bays Marine Park Management Plan 2012" (PDF). Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources. 2012. p. 23. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  3. ↑ South Australia. Department of Marine and Harbors (DMH) (1985), The Waters of South Australia a series of charts, sailing notes and coastal photographs, Dept. of Marine and Harbors, South Australia, pp. charts 39 &41, ISBN 978-0-7243-7603-2
  4. ↑ 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. 221. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
  5. ↑ 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. 165. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
  6. ↑ "The Latest Place Naming". The Register. 17 September 1908. p. 6. Retrieved 3 October 2014.


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