Cape Capricorn

Cape Capricorn

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location = Cape Capricorn, Queensland, Australia
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yearlit = 1964
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elevation = 93 m
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Cape Capricorn is a coastal headland in central Queensland, Australia.

It was named by Captain Cook when he passed on 25 May 1770, since he found it to located on the Tropic of Capricorn. [gutenberg|no=8106|name=Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World] The modern surveyed location of its endpoint is just slightly north of the tropic.

A lighthouse was first established on the Cape in 1875. The current lighthouse, dating from 1964, is the third built on the site. The lighthouse, like most along the Queensland coast, is automated. [cite web|url=http://www.lighthouse.net.au/lights/QLD/Cape%20Capricorn/Cape%20Capricorn.htm|author=Lighthouses of Australia Inc.|title=Lighthouses of Queensland - Cape Capricorn]

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