Preservation Island

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Preservation Island is a small flat island lying off the south-western side of Cape Barren Island in the Furneaux Group of islands in Bass Strait between Tasmania and Victoria.

It was named following the wreck of the ship Sydney Cove there in February 1797, thus predating the official discovery of Bass Strait by George Bass and Matthew Flinders in 1798.

The island was a base for sealers exploiting fur seals and elephant seals during the early to mid 1800s and was the permanent home of sealer John Munroe and several Tasmanian Aboriginal women and half-cast children until his death there in 1845.

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