Cape Hawke () is a coastal headland in Australia on the

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coast, just south of Forster/ Tuncurry and within the

Booti Booti National Park Booti Booti National Park is a national park in New South Wales, Australia, , by road, north-north-east of Sydney. The holiday town of Forster- Tuncurry lies immediately to the north. History The first European to inhabit the area was a Captai ...

. The cape was named by

Captain Cook James Cook (7 November 1728Old Style date: 27 October – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy, famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean an ...

when he passed it on his ''Endeavour'' voyage on 12 May 1770, honoring

Edward Hawke Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, Order of the Bath, KB, Privy Council of Great Britain, PC (21 February 1705 – 17 October 1781), of Scarthingwell Hall in the parish of Towton, near Tadcaster, Yorkshire, was a Royal Navy officer. As captain of ...

who was

First Lord of the Admiralty The First Lord of the Admiralty, or formally the Office of the First Lord of the Admiralty, was the political head of the English and later British Royal Navy. He was the government's senior adviser on all naval affairs, responsible for the di ...

., with editor W. J. L. Wharton's footnote explaining Hawke

References

Cape Hawke page
at

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