| Luemerrernanner / Cape Portland Tasmania | |
|---|---|
  Luemerrernanner / Cape Portland | |
| Coordinates | 40°44′58″S 147°56′43″E / 40.74944°S 147.94528°E |
| Postcode(s) | 7264 |
| LGA(s) | Dorset Council |
Cape Portland, officially Luemerrernanner / Cape Portland,[1] is both a geographical feature and a locality near the north-eastern tip of Tasmania, Australia. The cape points west across Ringarooma Bay, where the Ringarooma River empties into the Tasman Sea.
It was named after the Duke of Portland by Matthew Flinders during his 1798 circumnavigation of the island in the sloop Norfolk with George Bass. The Pyemmairre name of the Cape Portland district is Tebrakunna.[2]
Banks Strait separates Cape Portland from Clarke Island, one of the Furneaux Group, to the north.[3][4]
- ^ "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: 270.
- ^ "Bank Strait". Bonzle. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ^ "Banks Strait and Franklin Forecast". Bureau of Meteorology. 20 February 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021.