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Tam O'Shanter Point

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Tam O'Shanter Point is a headland located in South Mission Beach, Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia on the north-eastern part of Rockingham Bay in the Coral Sea.^[1] It is part of the Coastal Wet Tropics Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance for the conservation of lowland tropical rainforest birds.^[1]

History

The point was named by Captain Owen Stanley of the Royal Navy survey ship HMS Rattlesnake, after the barque Tam O'Shanter which was the ship sailed by explorer Edmund Kennedy to North Queensland on his ill-fated expedition to reach Cape York Peninsula.^[2]

References

1. ^BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Coastal Wet Tropics. Downloaded from {{cite web|url=http://www.birdlife.org |title=Archived copy |accessdate=July 10, 2007 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5QE8rvIqH |archivedate=July 10, 2007 }} on 2011-12-16.
2. ^¹{{cite QPN|33218|Tam O'Shanter Point|accessdate=28 August 2015}}

2 : Headlands of Queensland|Important Bird Areas of Queensland

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