Dunbabin Point
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Dunbabin point is a small peninsula which lies near Daltons beach, in the south east of
Tasmania Tasmania (; palawa kani: ''Lutruwita'') is an island States and territories of Australia, state of Australia. It is located to the south of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The sta ...
. It forms part of the mouth of
King George Sound King George Sound (Mineng ) is a sound (geography), sound on the south coast of Western Australia. Named King George the Third's Sound in 1791, it was referred to as King George's Sound from 1805. The name "King George Sound" gradually came in ...
. It separates a small beach (Beach T 373) from Daltons beach. This narrow 100 metre long beach lies at the base of bluffs rising to 10 metres with a farmhouse and orchards on the slopes behind. Dunbabin point faces south across the sand flats it shares with Daltons Beach. In 1868 John Dunbabin purchased 101 acres of land in the county of Pembroke in Tasmania.


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