Boatswain Point
- Local Government Area
- Robe
- Postcode
- 5275
- Population
- 46
- Area
- 1.77 km²
- Coordinates
- -37.0715, 139.7486
- Data
- Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics ASGS boundaries, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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About Boatswain Point
Boatswain Point is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the state’s south-east coast overlooking both Guichen Bay and the body of water known in Australia as the Southern Ocean and by international authorities as the Great Australian Bight about 260 kilometres (160 mi) south east of the state capital of Adelaide and about 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) north of the municipal seat of Robe. Boundaries for the locality were created on 28 January 1999 for “the long established name” and include the site of the Boatswain Point Shack Site. The name is derived from a coastal feature within the locality called Boatswain Point which is itself is reportedly named after a local person known as “Tom the Bosun” who profited from ferrying Chinese immigrants from ships off the coast and guiding them to the goldfields in Victoria during the 1850s.
Description from Wikipedia, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nearby localities
- Cape Jaffa 13 km
- Wangolina 13 km
- Mount Benson 14 km
- Robe 17 km
- Pinks Beach 23 km
- Sandy Grove 23 km