Cape Grenville

About 90 kilometres (56 mi) to the east and northeast of Cape Grenville is the far northern management area of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.

Persistent winds have blown sand on-shore and inland for up to 29 kilometres (18 mi) at the cape.

[3] On 29 April 2015 a large block of land, and surrounding waters, including Cape Grenville, were recognised by the Federal Court of Australia as belonging to the Wuthathi people: ".

recognised the exclusive and nonexclusive native title rights and interests of the Wuthathi People over approximately 1181 square kilometres of land described at [4] as an ecologically sensitive and beautiful area around Shelburne Bay on the northern tip of Cape York Peninsula.

Also, at [26] as lying wholly within the wider area of Wuthathi country, which extends along the coast to Captain Billy Landing in the north, extending southwards to south of the Olive River, and east to the Great Barrier Reef.