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Cape Conway, Queensland

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Cape Conway is a coastal locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia.[2] In the 2021 census, Cape Conway had "no people or a very low population".[1]

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Geography

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The land is mountainous and undeveloped bushland. The entire locality is within Conway National Park and the land use is nature conservation.[3]

Conway Range runs along the eastern part of the locality with a number of named peaks,[4] the highest of which is High Mountain at 555 metres (1,821 ft) 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.[5][6]

Mountains

The locality has the following mountains, from north to south:

Coastal features

The locality has the following headlands, clockwise around the coast:

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History

The 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.[2]

Demographics

In the 2016 census, Cape Conway had "no people or a very low population".[24]

In the 2021 census, Cape Conway had "no people or a very low population".[1]

Education

There are no schools in Cape Conway. The nearest government primary schools are Cannonvale State School in neighbouring Cannonvale to the north-west and Proserpine State School in Proserpine to the west. The nearest government secondary school is Proserpine State High School, also in Proserpine. There are also non-government schools in both Cannonvale and Proserpine offering primary and secondary education.[25]

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Attractions

There are two lookouts in the locality:

References

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