Cape Conway is a coastal locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia.[2] In the 2016 census, Cape Conway had no population.[1]

Cape Conway Queensland
Cape Conway
Coordinates	20.3527°S 148.7497°E / -20.3527; 148.7497
Population	0 (2016 census)[1]
• Density	0.0000/km2 (0.000/sq mi)
Postcode(s)	4800
Area	331.4 km2 (128.0 sq mi)
LGA(s)	Whitsunday Region
State electorate(s)	Whitsunday
Federal division(s)	Dawson
Suburbs around Cape Conway: Cannonvale Cannon Valley Brandy Creek Airlie Beach Jubilee Pocket Mandalay Flametree Mount Rooper Mount Marlow Preston Palm Grove Cape Conway Whitsundays Conway Conway Beach Coral Sea Coral Sea

Geography

The entire locality is within Conway National Park. The land is mountainous and undeveloped bushland. Conway Range runs along the eastern part of the locality with a number of named peaks,[3] 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.[4][5]

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]

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