North West Cape

North West Cape is a peninsula in the north-west of Western Australia.

It is in the Gascoyne region and includes the town of Exmouth.

In 1618, Dutch East India Company captain Lenaert Jacobszoon and supercargo Willem Janszoon of the Mauritius landed in the area.

[1] Phillip Parker King later visited in 1818 and named it North West Cape as well as naming Exmouth Gulf after senior naval officer Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth.

[2] The first oil flow in Australia was discovered there in 1953 at Rough Range, by exploration company WAPET.