Talk:Cape Leeuwin

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hey its anniversary time :)   . hmmm, interesting where an article might go in one year!  thanks folks, i think... one and all for the contribs and edits!! it doesnt reassure me though about wikipedia at all  :(  there are whole lot of links and extra info that never happened. SatuSuro 14:02, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

How to pronounce Leeuwin?
Could someone add the phonetics or even better a soundfile? Happily ever after 22:44, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Roughly: Loo-win. Hesperian 23:57, 10 January 2007 (UTC)


 * So it's like "moo-wing" (whatever that may be), not like "mooing", correct? --Ibn Battuta 18:48, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I put up a sound file, showing how it would be pronounced in Perth. Orderinchaos 10:00, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Name
"The cape appeared on early Dutch maps as 't landte Leeuwin (circa 1622) suggesting a sighting from the Dutch ship De Leeuwin (Dutch for The Lioness)."
 * Here's the good oil: The coast between present-day Point D'Entrecasteaux and Hamelin Bay was mapped by the Leeuwin in 1622. This section of coast was subsequently referred to as 't Landt van de Leeuwin ("The Land of the Leeuwin") on Dutch maps. When Bruni d'Entrecasteaux visited in 1791, he saw Cape Leeuwin but thought it was an island. He named it Iles St Allouarn. This is a reference to the French explorer Francois de St Allouarn, although the similarity of "Allouarn" to "Leeuwin" excourages a false etymology. Anyhow, when Matthew Flinders visited in December 1801, he discovered that d'Entrecasteaux's island was in fact a cape, so he renamed it Cape Leeuwin. Hesperian 12:47, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I have now created Louis Aleno de St Aloüarn and will add in-text references shortly. All comments and improvements welcome :-) (FWIW, "Francois" was his dad &mdash; a less prominent French naval officer &mdash; and I believe that this one of those of those cases where a surname has four words, i.e. "Aleno de St Aloüarn" &mdash; a practice which is extremely uncommon in English speaking countries, but quite common in others. It isn't unknown in present day Australia, e.g. the Holmes à Court family.) Cheers, Grant  |  Talk  05:11, 1 July 2010 (UTC)