There do seem to be a lot of Shark Bays, points, coves etc!

And, slightly off marine topic, I always liked Mount Buggery in the Vic high country.

We have Desolation Bay down the river from here www.australias.guide/tas/

Regards Don

Wreck Bay just south of Jervios Bay NSW

Cockburn Sound ,,, Just south of Freo

Jolene said..
Cockburn Sound ,,, Just south of Freo

That would be the old red light district ! ? ......

While visiting King island one of the locals told me of a name some had given the entry to Currie harbour ( west coast ). "the white nuckel entry "

So I went and had a look from the shore..... Easy to see why they call it that ! !

Cape catastrophe sounds daunting

Not scary but very descriptive, Tacking Point NSW. Cisco, Havefunand I spent many many hours tacking past the bloody thing. The EAC runs past at something like 4 knots.

Starvation Bay,,, east of Hopetoun ,,WA south coast

Hell's Gates - West Coast Tas
Hellfire Bluff - SE Tas

The navigators like Matthew Flinders and John Lort Stokes who named many of these places didn't use a lot of imagination when it came to choosing names. If it wasn't named after royalty, or some bigwig in the Admiralty, it was usually named just by what happened or what they saw at that place.

Point Torment: "A name was soon found for our new territory, upon which we with rueful unanimity conferred that of Point Torment, from the incessant and vindictive attacks of swarms of mosquitoes, by whom it had evidently been resolved to give the newcomers a warm welcome."

Point Escape: “The nearest land, a mangrove point bearing S.S.E. one mile, we afterwards named Escape Point, in grateful memory of the providential escapes we experienced in its vicinity. Where the boats were anchored we had nearly five feet at low-water, and the tide ran past them at the rate of five miles an hour.” From John Lort Stokes' Discoveries in Australia, which documents his charting of travels on H.M.S. Beagle. Fascinating and very entertaining reading. And a sobering first-hand history lesson on how aboriginal Australians were treated.

Refuse Cove
It is what it is

Cape Grim - Tassie

Not really a sailing one but Lake Disappointment.

Looks like we have stirred up a hornet's nest.

www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-26/horny-point-clean-up-map-of-australia/7871090