Kennaook / Cape Grim | |
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 Cape Grim, looking North. The Doughboys on the left, Trefoil Island in middle distance, Hunter Island and Three Hummock Island beyond to the right. | |
  Kennaook / Cape Grim | |
| Coordinates: 40°38′31″S 144°43′33″E / 40.64194°S 144.72583°E | |
| Location | Tasmania, Australia |
| Offshore water bodies | Southern Indian Ocean Bass Strait |
Cape Grim, officially Kennaook / Cape Grim,[2] is the northwestern point of Tasmania, Australia. The Peerapper name for the cape is recorded as Kennaook.[3]
It is the location of the Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station and of the Cape Grim Air Archive[4] which is operated by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology[5] in a joint programme with the CSIRO. The station was established in 1976 and has been operating ever since. The data from Cape Grim have been used extensively in assessments of climate change and ozone depletion.[6]
- ^ "Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station". Archived from the original on 23 February 2002.
- ^ "Place Name Assignments List No. 561 (22089)" (PDF). Tasmanian Government Gazette. 2 June 2021. p. 489. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
- ^ Milligan, Joseph (1858). "On the dialects and languages of the Aboriginal Tribes of Tasmania, and on their manners and customs" (PDF). Papers of the Royal Society of Tasmania: 271.
- ^ Cape Grim: Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station (Tas) (Profile – Facility)
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 23 February 2002. Retrieved 9 March 2008.
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