Google Earth shows the underwater terrain too, so you can see where the shelf
is. It is fairly close there, but so is the whole NSW coast so it's hard to
tell if it's the closest.
This page:
http://www.marine.csiro.au/~griffin/SEF/index.htm
shows the ocean currents in the area. There appears to be an eddy bringing
water from far offshore to near there. No idea if that's what brings the birds
in though.
Peter Shute
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From: on behalf of David Adams
Sent: Sun 13/07/2008 12:11 PM
To: Birding-Aus
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Subject: Albatrosses: Questions and comments (Green Cape -NSW) [Long]
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Getting Close to Albatrosses
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I've long been puzzled and or intimidated by messages where people
report albatross sightings and confidently identify which albatross
they saw. Whenever I go to a promising headland, I'm lucky if I can
tell that I'm seeing an albatross, never mind what sort it is. Okay,
I've finally figured out the secret: you need to be standing on a
cliff where the albatrosses come in close. I guess that sounds
obvious, but I don't know how many headlands there are that fit this
description. A year or so a go a geologist told me that he had been
told in school that Green Cape is the point on the Australian mainland
that is closest to the continental shelf, which would seem to make it
ideal for seabird watching. (I can't verify that this geological
detail is true as I've not been able to find any on-line bathymetric
charts. If anyone knows for sure, I'd be grateful for an update.)
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