词条 | Cape Conway, Queensland |
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| type = suburb | name = Cape Conway | city = | state = qld | image = | caption = | coordinates = {{coord|-20.3527|148.7497|type:city_region:AU-QLD|display=inline,title}} | pop = 0 | pop_year = {{CensusAU|2016}} | pop_footnotes = [1] | established = | postcode = 4800 | area = 331.4 | dist1 = | dir1 = | location1 = | dist2 = | dir2 = | location2 = | dist3 = | dir3 = | location3 = | dist4 = | dir4 = | location4 = | lga = Whitsunday Region | stategov = Whitsunday | fedgov = Dawson | near-n = Airlie Beach Jubilee Pocket Mandalay | near-ne = Flametree Mount Rooper | near-e = Whitsundays | near-se = Coral Sea | near-s = Coral Sea | near-sw = Conway Conway Beach | near-w = Mount Marlow Preston Palm Grove | near-nw = Cannonvale Cannon Valley Brandy Creek }}Cape Conway is a coastal locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia.[1] In the {{CensusAU|2016}}, Cape Conway had no population.[2] GeographyThe entire locality is within Conway National Park. The land is mountainous and undeveloped bushland. Conway Range runs along the eastern part of the locality with a number of named peaks,[3] the highest of which is High Mountain at {{Convert|555|m|}} above sea level. High Mountain was originally noted as High Peak on a chart by Lieutenant Francis Price Blackwood (Royal Navy) in HMS Fly in 1843. [4][5] HistoryThe locality name derives from the geographic feature Cape Conway which was named on 3 June 1770 by Lieutenant James Cook on the HM Bark Endeavour after Henry Seymour Conway, the Secretary of State for the Southern Department from 1765 to 1766 and Secretary of State for the Northern Department from 1766 to 1768.[1] References1. ^1 {{cite QPN|46857|Cape Conway|locality in Whitsunday Region|accessdate=31 December 2017}} {{Whitsunday Region}}{{Queensland-geo-stub}}2. ^1 {{Census 2016 AUS|id=SSC30530 |name=Cape Conway (SSC)|accessdate=20 October 2018|quick=on}} 3. ^{{Cite QPN|8002|Conway Range|range in Whitsunday Region|accessdate=10 November 2018}} 4. ^{{Cite QPN|15853|High Mountain|mountain in Whitsunday Region|accessdate=10 November 2018}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=https://qldglobe.information.qld.gov.au/|title=Queensland Globe|publisher=State of Queensland|accessdate=10 November 2018}} 1 : Whitsunday Region |
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