Cape Portland
Luemerrernanner / Cape Portland | |
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| Country | Australia |
| State | Tasmania |
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| Postcode | 7264 |
Cape Portland, officially Luemerrernanner / Cape Portland,[1] is both a geographical feature and a locality near the north-eastern tip of Tasmania, Australia. The cape points west across Ringarooma Bay, where the Ringarooma River empties into the Tasman Sea.
It was named after the Duke of Portland by Matthew Flinders during his 1798 circumnavigation of the island in the sloop Norfolk with George Bass. The Pyemmairre name of the Cape Portland district is Tebrakunna.[2]
Banks Strait separates Cape Portland from Clarke Island, one of the Furneaux Group, to the north.[3][4]
History
[edit | edit source]Cape Portland Post Office opened on 6 April 1865 (first as a receiving house) and finally closed in 1918.[5]
Birds
[edit | edit source]It is the site of the 67 km2 Cape Portland Important Bird Area which includes the cape itself, some adjacent land, a strip of coastline east of the cape extending to Policemans Point at the mouth of Ansons Bay, and nearby Swan Island. This area supports more than 1% of the world population of the Cape Barren goose, chestnut teal and the near threatened hooded plover. It also occasionally supports large numbers of pied oystercatchers, double-banded plovers and breeding fairy terns.[6]
Notable people
[edit | edit source]Dora Jeanette Turner (1888–1953), a local educationist, was born here on 8 January 1888.[7]
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