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Green Cape 2011

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  COG at Green Cape in 2011 Canberra Ornithologists Group Visit to Green Cape NSW, 19-24 September 2011 Green Cape juts out into the Tasman Sea at the extreme SE corner of mainland Australia. It is just N of the border between the states of NSW and Victoria. The narrow tip of Green Cape points almost SE. To the W and SW is Disaster Bay and the coastline northwards from the cape runs roughly NNW. To seawards our observations include the area to the limits of visibility, which from the tip of Green Cape (the Point) involves about 320˚ of arc. Figure 1:  Google map of Green Cape The Google image of Green Cape (see Figure 1) shows various tracks and the main dirt road to the lightstation together with the forest edge to the N of the heathlands, which are all clearly visible. This was the fourth field trip to Green Cape organized by the Canberra Ornithologists Group.  Previous visits were in June 2004, October 2005 and October 2007 – see the blog-reports  here  for 2...