Australia
Western Australia
Shire of Shark Bay

Steep Point

Steep Point is the westernmost point of mainland Australia. It is located within the of , 670 kilometres north of the state's capital , in the proposed Edel Land National Park.
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  • Type: Cape
  • Description: headland in Western Australia and westernmost point of the Australian mainland
  • Also known as: “Steep Point, Australia”, “Steep Point, Shark Bay”, “Steep Point, W.A.”, and “Steep Point, Western Australia”
Photo: JarrahTree, CC BY 2.5 au.

Steep Point

Latitude
-26.15228° or 26° 9′ 8″ south
Longitude
113.15606° or 113° 9′ 22″ east
Elevation
49 metres (161 feet)
Open location code
5P5MR5X4+3C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 136140911
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­cape
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
2061077
Wiki­data ID
Q1999953
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Steep Point” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نقطة الانحدار”
  • Azerbaijani: “Stip-Poynt burnu”
  • Belarusian: “Мыс Стып-Пойнт”
  • Belarusian: “Стып-Пойнт”
  • Cebuano: “Steep Point”
  • Czech: “Příkrý mys”
  • Dutch: “Steep Point”
  • Dutch: “Steyle Hock”
  • French: “Pointe Escarpee”
  • French: “pointe Escarpée”
  • French: “Pointe Escarpée”
  • French: “Steep Point”
  • German: “Steep Point”
  • Kabardian: “Стип-Поинт”
  • Kazakh: “Стип-пойнт”
  • Kazakh: “Стип-Пойнт”
  • Lithuanian: “Stip Pointas”
  • Polish: “Steep Point”
  • Portuguese: “Steep Point”
  • Russian: “Мыс Стип-Пойнт”
  • Russian: “Стип-Пойнт”
  • Serbian: “Steep Point”
  • Serbian: “Stip Pojnt”
  • Serbian: “Стип поинт”
  • Serbian: “Стип Поинт”
  • Serbian: “Стип Појнт”
  • Slovak: “Príkry mys”
  • Spanish: “Punta Steep”
  • Swedish: “Steep Point”
  • Ukrainian: “Стіп-Пойнт”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Steep Point”. Photo: Ethanwhite07, CC BY-SA 4.0.