Cape Conway, Queensland

Cape Conway is a coastal locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the, Cape Conway had "no people or a very low population".

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, the highest of which is High Mountain at 555 m 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.

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


 * Strip Point (-20.32111°N, 148.81473°W)
 * Trammel Bay (-20.3387°N, 148.8195°W)
 * Dugong Bay (-20.3426°N, 148.8196°W)
 * Spit Point (-20.3537°N, 148.8407°W)
 * Andersons Bay (-20.368°N, 148.8331°W)
 * Long Island Sound (-20.3806°N, 148.8441°W)
 * Woodcutter Bay (-20.385°N, 148.8296°W)
 * Puritan Bay (-20.4651°N, 148.8803°W)
 * Round Head (-20.478°N, 148.9104°W)
 * Genesta Bay (-20.4877°N, 148.8977°W)
 * Cape Conway, the most south-eastern point of the locality (-20.5343°N, 148.9306°W)
 * Rocky Point (-20.4792°N, 148.764°W)


 * Repulse Beach (-20.4773°N, 148.7635°W)
 * Repulse Bay (-20.55°N, 148.763°W)

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


 * The Hump (-20.2928°N, 148.7551°W) 329 m
 * Mount Hayward (-20.3096°N, 148.7577°W) 441 m
 * Mount Maclear (-20.3177°N, 148.7817°W) 385 m
 * Mount Conway (-20.3204°N, 148.7753°W) 430 m
 * Mount Sunter (-20.3313°N, 148.8027°W) 354 m
 * Mount Kangaroo (-20.3491°N, 148.8301°W) 271 m
 * High Mountain (-20.3586°N, 148.7936°W) 555 m
 * Mount Proserpine (-20.4414°N, 148.7181°W) 444 m
 * Little Conway (-20.459°N, 148.7366°W) 344 m

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.

Demographics
In the, Cape Conway had "no people or a very low population".

In the, Cape Conway had "no people or a very low population".

Attractions
There are two lookouts in the locality:


 * Mt Haywood Lookout (-20.3094°N, 148.7576°W)
 * Honeyeater Lookout (-20.2925°N, 148.6974°W)