9-476: Pelican Island may refer to: Places [ edit ] Australia [ edit ] Pelican Island (Tasmania) Pelican Island (Kimberley coast) , Western Australia. United States [ edit ] Pelican Island, Tulare Lake , California Pelican Island (New Jersey) Pelican Island (Texas) Pelican Island (Corpus Christi Bay) , Texas Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge , Florida In
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27-425: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Pelican Island (Tasmania) Pelican Island is an island, with an area of 6.8 ha (17 acres) including an associated reef joined to it at low tide, in south-eastern Australia . It is part of Tasmania ’s Vansittart Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait between Flinders and Cape Barren Islands in
36-556: Is present and there is evidence of the presence of feral cats . 40°18′S 148°19′E / 40.300°S 148.317°E / -40.300; 148.317 This Tasmania geography article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Furneaux Group Download coordinates as: The Furneaux Group is a group of approximately 100 islands located at the eastern end of Bass Strait , between Victoria and Tasmania , Australia. The islands were named after British navigator Tobias Furneaux , who sighted
45-606: The Furneaux Group . Until 1984 it was leased for grazing. The island is part of the Franklin Sound Islands Important Bird Area , identified as such by BirdLife International because it holds over 1% of the world populations of six bird species. Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are short-tailed shearwater , white-faced storm-petrel , Pacific gull , Caspian tern and sooty oystercatcher . An unidentified skink
54-615: The West Indies [ edit ] Pelican Island (Antigua and Barbuda) Pelican Island (Barbados) Pelican Island (British Virgin Islands) Pelikan Rock, Sint Maarten Pelican Island (Trinidad and Tobago) Elsewhere [ edit ] Pelican Island (Albania) Pelican Island, Palmyra Atoll , in the central Pacific Ocean Pelican Islands Ecological Reserve , Manitoba, Canada Other uses [ edit ] "The Pelican Island" (1828),
63-628: The administrative centre of the Flinders Council . There are also some small farming properties on the remote islands. After seals were discovered there in 1798, the Furneaux Group of islands became the most intensively exploited sealing ground in Bass Strait. A total of 29 islands in the Furneaux Group have been found to have some tangible link with sealing in the 19th century. The Aboriginal matriarch, Dolly Dalrymple ,
72-778: The eastern side of these islands after leaving Adventure Bay in 1773 on his way to New Zealand to rejoin Captain James Cook . Navigator Matthew Flinders was the first European to explore the Furneaux Islands group, in the Francis in 1798, and later that year in the Norfolk . The largest islands in the group are Flinders Island , Cape Barren Island , and Clarke Island . The group contains five settlements: Killiecrankie, Emita, Lady Barron , Cape Barren Island, and Whitemark on Flinders Island, which serves as
81-476: Was born on the Furneaux Islands. Her mother was one of two Aboriginal women who had been kidnapped from northern Tasmania by the sealer George Briggs. King Island , at the western end of Bass Strait, is not a part of the group. The islands contain granite from the Devonian period, as well as unconsolidated limestone and sand from Cenozoic periods. During the last ice age , a land bridge joined Tasmania to
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