The data from Cape Grim have been used extensively in assessments of climate change and ozone depletion.

The next land mass directly west of Cape Grim is not Africa, but the southern tip of Argentina.

Winds that make their way to Cape Grim from Antarctica and the Indian Ocean hit no significant land mass.

Air pollution values collected at Cape Grim are the closest attainable representation of a global average.

[7] The headland was first charted and named Cape Grim by Matthew Flinders on 7 December 1798, as he sailed from the east in the Norfolk and found a long swell coming from the south-west, confirming for the first time that Van Diemen's Land was separated from the Australian mainland by a strait, which he named Bass Strait.