Cape Banks is a headland in the Australian state of
South Australia
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located in the gazetted locality of
Carpenter Rocks at the south end of Bucks Bay and the north end of Bungaloo Bay on the state's south east coast about west south west of the city of
Mount Gambier
Mount Gambier is the second most populated city in South Australia, with a population of 25,591 as of the 2021 census. The city is located on the slopes of Mount Gambier (volcano), Mount Gambier, a volcano in the south east of the state, about ...
.
The cape is described by one source as being "a rocky point, high, SSE of
Cape Buffon" while another source describes it as ‘a
cuspate foreland
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protruding seaward in lee of
calcarenite
Calcarenite is a type of limestone that is composed predominantly, more than 50 percent, of detrital (transported) sand-size (0.0625 to 2 mm in diameter), Carbonate rock, carbonate grains. The grains consist of sand-size grains of either cor ...
rocks and reefs’.
[
It was named by the ]Royal Navy
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officer, James Grant, on 3 December 1800.Port Adelaide
Port Adelaide is a port-side region of Adelaide, approximately northwest of the Adelaide city centre, Adelaide CBD. It is also the namesake of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield council, a suburb, a federal and state electoral division and is t ...
to Melbourne
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, with great loss of life, as rescue boats could not get close enough to rescue survivors.[ ]
The navigation aid known as the Cape Banks Lighthouse is not located on the cape, but on an unnamed headland located at the northern end of Lighthouse Bay which is the next bay to the north-west of Bucks Bay.
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