  Liguanea Island | |
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| Location | Great Australian Bight |
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Liguanea Island is an uninhabited granite island in the Australian state ofSouth Australia located 3.7 km south ofCape Carnot at the southern, central point ofEyre Peninsula. It is approximately 2.7 km long, 180 ha in size its elevation above sea level is estimated to be 43 metres.[1] It is approximately 35 km south-west ofPort Lincoln in theGreat Australian Bight.[2] The island forms part of theLincoln National Park.[3]
Liguanea Island was named by British explorerMatthew Flinders on 18 February 1802. The following day, Flinders named the nearby headlandCape Wiles "after a worthy friend at Liguanea, inJamaica." In Flinders' atlas (Plate 17) there is a view of the cape and the island as seen from his ship,The Investigator.[4]
The same year, French explorerNicolas Baudin named the island asIle Guyton.[4]
In 1905, the shipGovernor Musgrave called by Liguanea Island while searching for the wreckage of the lost vessel,Loch Vennachar. A newspaper correspondent on the vessel described the island as "a large bare block of forbidding granite some miles in extent."[5]
In 1914, a buck and two does were placed on Liguanea Island.[6]
The island first obtained protected area status as a fauna conservation reserve declared under theCrown Lands Act 1929-1966 on 16 March 1967.[7]
On 26 May 1980 biodiversity data was collected on Liguanea Island. Among there species recorded wereAustralian sea-lion,little penguin,Cape Barren goose andbush rat.[8] Little penguin breeding on the island was acknowledged in a 1996 survey of South Australia's offshore islands.[9]
34°59′20″S135°37′17″E / 34.98889°S 135.62139°E /-34.98889; 135.62139
| West coast ofEyre Peninsula |
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| Spencer Gulf |
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| Kangaroo Island |
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| Gulf St Vincent | |||||||||
| Backstairs Passage | |||||||||
| Encounter Bay and adjoining waters | |||||||||
| South east coast | |||||||||
| Mainland |
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