St Peter Island (South Australia)
 The island appears on this 1644 map as "I St. Pierre" | |
  St Peter Island | |
| Geography | |
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| Location | Great Australian Bight |
| Coordinates | 32°17′S 133°34′E / 32.283°S 133.567°E |
| Archipelago | Nuyts Archipelago |
| Administration | |
Australia | |
St Peter Island (originally in Dutch: Eyland St. Pierre) is an island in the
't Gulden Zeepaert
in 1627.
Seal hunting took place on the island in the 1820s and 1830s.[2] Archaeological investigations have also located whale vertebra at the site.
The historic St Peter Island Whaling Sites are listed on the South Australian Heritage Register as a designated place of archaeological significance.[3]
Protected area status
Statutory reserves
The island is part of the Nuyts Archipelago Conservation Park while the waters surrounding its shores are in the Nuyts Archipelago Marine Park.[4][5][6]
Non-statutory arrangements
Important Bird Area
The island is part of the
white-faced storm-petrels and pied oystercatchers.[7] The island lies across the Yatala Channel from the separate Tourville and Murat Bays Important Bird Area, just west of Ceduna on the mainland.[8]
See also
Notes
- ^ "Pieter Nuyts". Flinders Rangers Research. Retrieved 23 July 2008.
- ^ Kostoglou, Parry; McCarthy, Justin (1991). Whaling and sealing sites in South Australia. Fremantle, WA: Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. pp. 47–50.
- ^ "St Peter Island Whaling Sites, Nuyts Archipelago Conservation Park (designated places of archaeological significance)". South Australian Heritage Register. Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
- ISSN 1832-9357. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
- ISBN 1-921238-18-6.
- ^ "NUYTS ARCHIPELAGO MARINE PARK MANAGEMENT PLAN 2012" (PDF). Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. p. 5. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
- ^ "IBA: Nuyts Archipelago". Birdata. Birds Australia. Retrieved 5 September 2011.
- ^ BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Tourville and Murat Bays. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 2011-11-07.
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