It is located within the Gascoyne region of Western Australia, 670 kilometres (420 mi) north of the state's capital Perth, in the proposed Edel Land National Park.

The North West Coastal Highway is the closest sealed road and is 200 kilometres (120 mi) east of the point.

Serious fishers harness themselves onto the point, float their baits off the cliff using helium balloons and haul their catch up uses specially designed fishing gaffs, however it is very common that a shark steals the fisher's catch before they can haul it up onto land.

[5] On 17 July 2006 the largest ever recorded tsunami to hit Australia was measured at 7.9 metres (26 ft) high at Steep Point.

[6] South of Steep Point, a monument commemorates the sinking of the prawn trawler Nor 6 in 1963 and the story of the survival of its skipper, Jack Drinan.