Am I at Kingscliff, or Cudgen, or Sutherland Point? Cudgen is the gazetted locality name, which is why this is the name of the trig, Kingscliff was the name of the sub-division where blocks were offered for sale at Cudgen Heads in 1918. Newspaper accounts of the sale indicate it was well attended and many many blocks were sold. No doubt current land purchasers would love the 21 pound sale price for some of these blocks.

Surveyor Robert Dixon named this area Sutherland Point during his 1840 survey of the area. It was named after the Duke of Sutherland, one of Britain’s wealthiest and most influential noblemen. Dixon named several localities after influencial British nobelmen as a way of currying favour. So what does it have to do with the trig... probably nothing except for the intellectual exercise and explaining why the three names - Cudgen, Kingscliff, Sutherland Point are sometimes used interchangably.

Thanks for the cache.

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