Cape Conway is a coastal

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in the

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, Australia. In the , Cape Conway had "no people or a very low population".

Geography

The land is mountainous and undeveloped bushland. The entire locality is within

Conway National Park Conway is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 911 km northwest of Brisbane. The park's main feature is the Conway Peninsula which is covered by the largest area of lowland tropical rainforest in Queensland outside Tropical North Quee ...

and the land use is

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. Conway Range runs along the eastern part of the locality with a number of named peaks, the highest of which is High Mountain at above sea level. High Mountain was originally noted as High Peak on a chart by Lieutenant

Francis Price Blackwood Francis Price Blackwood (25 May 1809 – 22 March 1854) was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, British naval officer who while posted at several different locations during his time in the Royal Navy, spent much of his time posted in c ...

(

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) in HMS Fly in 1843.

Mountains

The locality has the following mountains, from north to south: * The Hump () * Mount Hayward () * Mount Maclear () * Mount Conway () * Mount Sunter () * Mount Kangaroo () * High Mountain () * Mount Proserpine () * Little Conway ()

Coastal features

The locality has the following headlands, clockwise around the coast: * Strip Point () * Trammel Bay () * Dugong Bay () * Spit Point () * Andersons Bay () * Long Island Sound () * Woodcutter Bay () * Puritan Bay () * Round Head () * Genesta Bay () * Cape Conway, the most south-eastern point of the locality () * Rocky Point () * Repulse Beach () * Repulse Bay ()

History

The locality name derives from the geographic feature

Cape Conway Cape Conway is the rounded low and ice-free tipped cape forming the south extremity of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is a south entrance point for Boyd Strait. ''Tooth Rock'' () rising to and lying to the south is ...

which was named on 3 June 1770 by Lieutenant

James Cook Captain (Royal Navy), Captain James Cook (7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer, and cartographer famous for his three voyages of exploration to the Pacific and Southern Oceans, conducted between 176 ...

on the

HM Bark Endeavour HMS ''Endeavour'' was a British Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook commanded to Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia on his first voyage of discovery from 1768 to 1771. She was launched in 1764 as the collier ''Earl of Pemb ...

after

Henry Seymour Conway Field Marshal Henry Seymour Conway (1721 – 9 July 1795) was a British general and statesman. A brother of the 1st Marquess of Hertford, and cousin of Horace Walpole, he began his military career in the War of the Austrian Succession. He held ...

, the

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from 1765 to 1766 and

Secretary of State for the Northern Department The secretary of state for the Northern Department was a position in the Cabinet (government), Cabinet of the government of Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain up to 1782. Following this, the Northern Department became the Foreign Office, a ...

from 1766 to 1768.

Demographics

In the , Cape Conway had "no people or a very low population". In the , Cape Conway had "no people or a very low population".

Education

There are no schools in Cape Conway. The nearest government primary schools are Cannonvale State School in neighbouring Cannonvale to the north-west and Proserpine State School in Proserpine to the west. The nearest government secondary school is Proserpine State High School, also in Proserpine. There are also non-government schools in both Cannonvale and Proserpine offering primary and secondary education.

Attractions

There are two lookouts in the locality: * Mt Haywood Lookout () * Honeyeater Lookout ()

References

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