Rame Head (Victoria)

Cook named Rame Head Ram Head, after a point that can be seen going into Plymouth Sound,[1] Cook wrote the name Ram in Modern English [as used today] and that spelling was adopted by Aaron Arrowsmith, George Bass, Matthew Flinders, James Grant, Louis de Freycinet and even John Hawesworth when commissioned by the Admiralty to edit Cook's papers and journal[2] and that spelling became official when the Admiralty published Matthew Flinders' charts, dated January and February 1814.

In 1971, the Victorian Government gazetted the point as "Rame" to match its Cornish namesake.

Around 1810 the small village and Headland, in Cornwall, reverted to the Old Modern English spelling of Rame.

In 1986 one of Australia's foremost maritime historians, Lieutenant Commander Geoffrey Ingleton RAN – "An accomplished and fine Cartographer"[3] – wrote in his book Matthew Flinders: Navigator and Chartmaker [page 42]: "The coastlines of both New South Wales (the present Victoria) and Van Diemens Land (the present Tasmania) were carefully delineated by Flinders, considering the nature and quickness of the survey.

The only feature on this coast SW of Cape Howe which meets exactly that description is the present Rame Head.