Green Cape, New South Wales

Green Cape is a locality situated on the eponymous headland or cape on the far south coast of New South Wales. It is located at 37° 15' S 150° 03' E, within Ben Boyd National Park, south of Eden, New South Wales. The headland forms the northern boundary of Disaster Bay.

"Green Cape" redirects here. For the African island nation so called in English, see Cape Verde.

Green Cape viewed from the lighthouse.

The first vessel recorded shipwrecked at Green Cape was the City of Sydney which struck the cape in fog on 6 October 1862 with more than 100 passengers on board. All passengers and crew boarded lifeboats and made it safely ashore.[1][2]

The Green Cape Lighthouse, the southernmost lighthouse in New South Wales, completed in 1883, was mostly constructed by Albert Aspinall, who constructed a 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) wooden tramway from the nearest landfall at Bittangabee Bay for the purpose.

On 31 May 1886 The SS Ly-Ee-Moon en route to Sydney from Melbourne, struck a reef close to the cape at night. 71 souls were lost with the lighthouse keepers only being able to save 15 people under the conditions.[3]

Heritage listings

Green Cape has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

  • Green Cape Road: Green Cape Maritime Precinct[4]

References
  1. "City of Sydney". Maritime Heritage. NSW Office of Environment & Heritage. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  2. "Wreck of the City of Sydney". The Argus. 10 November 1862. p. 5. Retrieved 8 November 2020 – via Trove.
  3. "The Green Cape Lighthouse". Lighthouses of New South Wales. Lighthouses of Australia Inc.
  4. "Green Cape Maritime Precinct". New South Wales State Heritage Register. Office of Environment and Heritage. H01897. Retrieved 18 May 2018.


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