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Green Cape 2013

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COG at Green Cape in 2013 Canberra Ornithologists Group Visit to Green Cape, NSW, 23–27 September 2013 Green Cape lightstation  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 an arc of about 320°. Figure 1: Google map of Green Cape The Google image of Green Cape (see Figure 1) shows various tracks, the main dirt road to the lightstation and the clearly visible forest edge to the N of the heathlands. This was the fifth field trip to Green Cape organised by the Canberra Ornithologists Group. (Previous visits were in June 2004, October 2005, October 2007 and September 2011. Reports covering these previous visits ca...