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Cape Leeuwin and the “land of the lioness”22nd March 2010
The Dutch navigators who had first sighted it - without stopping or claiming possession -had named “Land of Leeuwin” (which in Flemish means “lioness”, the name of their ship) this vast and wild piece of territory located at the southwestern tip of Australia. And if Mathew Flinders eventually gave the name Leeuwin to the cape itself in 1801, the French influence on this region could have been much more important ! READ MORE about Cape Leeuwin in the Race News below…
