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Rame Head
A visitor to our website has contacted us with information he has published on RAME HEAD. Not the southern extremity of our own peninsula, but one from the antipodes!
He writes thus:
I have just discovered your group via an internet search.You may be interested in the attached article published in Cook's Log, journal of the Captain Cook Society.It contains interesting information about Rame Head, Victoria, Australia, named by James Cook in 1770 after Rame Head, Cornwall.Because of a number of confusions discussed in the article, it is not well known (in UK or Australia) that Australia's Rame Head is the first place named by Cook on the Australian coast.It is also the first place in Australia named after a place in Britain.Cook left England on the first voyage from Plymouth and would have passed Rame Head, so it is a wonderful topographical coincidence that the first place that he named in Australia looked so similar.
The author and copyright holder of the article, Trevor Lipscombe has allowed us to use the following article. (click on the title to view - article revised November 2013)
Rame Head a Remarkably Overlooked Point
Rame Head (more details)
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rame_Head_%28Victoria%29