Red Point (34°29′S 150°55′E / 34.483°S 150.917°E / -34.483; 150.917^[1]) is a coastal headland at Port Kembla in New South Wales, Australia. Martin Islet lies just off the point.

The point was named by Captain Cook when he passed there on 25 April 1770 (ship's date), for "some part of the Land about it appeared of that Colour".^[2]

[edit] References

1. ^ Red Point page at Geoscience Australia
2. ^ Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World at Project Gutenberg

v • d • e Australian places named on the First voyage of James Cook in 1770 Victoria 19th April: Point Hicks · Ram Head · 20th; Cape Howe New South Wales 21st April: Mount Dromedary · Bateman Bay · 25th: Red Point · 28th: Botany Bay*· 6th May: Port Jackson · Broken Bay · 11th: Point Stephens · Port Stephens · Cape Hawke · 12th: The Three Brothers · 13th: Smoky Cape · 15th: Solitary Isles · Cape Byron · 16th: Mount Warning Queensland 16th May: Point Danger · 17th: Point Lookout · Cape Moreton · Morton Bay · The Glass Houses · 18th: Double Island Point · 19th: Indian Head · 21st: Herveys Bay · 23rd: Bustard Bay* · 25th: Cape Capricorn · 26th: Keppel Isles · 27th: Keppel Bay · 27th: Cape Manyfold · 28th: Shoal Water Bay · Northumberland Isles · 1st June: Long Isle · Broad Sound · 2nd: Slade Point · 4th: Whitsundays Passage · Cape Gloucester · 6th: Magnetical Island · Palm Isles · 8th: Halifax Bay · Dunk Island · 9th: Frankland Islands · Fitzroy Island · 10th: Green Isle · Trinity Bay · Cape Tribulation 14th June - 4th August: Endeavour River* 11th Aug: Lizard Island* · Eagle Island* · 18th: Sir Charles Hardy's Isles · 19th: Cape Grenville · 21st: York Cape · 22nd: Possession Island*· Prince of Wales's Isles · 23rd: Booby Island* *Places where Cook landed