Cape York
The Australian continent's northernmost point, Cape York, lies on the southern side of Torres Strait, which separates it from New Guinea.
The twenty-five-kilometre cape is around nineteen kilometres wide. It provides the name for the six-hundred-kilometre peninsula to the south, with the Coral Sea to its east and the Gulf of Carpentaria to the west.
James Cook named the cape on 21 August 1770 after George III's brother Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany.
