St Peter Island

For the small Black Sea island in Bulgaria, see St. Peter Island, Bulgaria.

St Peter Island is an island on the south coast of South Australia near Ceduna to the south of Denial Bay. It is the second largest island in South Australia and about 13km long.[1] It was one of the first parts of South Australia to be discovered and named by Europeans, along with St Francis Island, mapped by Francois Thijssen in 1627.

Important Bird Area

The island is part of the Nuyts Archipelago Important Bird Area (IBA), so identified by BirdLife International because it supports over 1% of the world populations of Short-tailed Shearwaters, White-faced Storm-Petrels and Pied Oystercatchers.[2] The island lies across the Yatala Channel from the separate Tourville and Murat Bays Important Bird Area, just west of Ceduna on the mainland.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ "Pieter Nuyts". Flinders Rangers Research. http://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/nuyts.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-23. 
  2. ^ "IBA: Nuyts Archipelago". Birdata. Birds Australia. http://www.birdata.com.au/iba.vm. Retrieved 2011-09-05. 
  3. ^ BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Tourville and Murat Bays. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 2011-11-07.

See also

Queensland

Staaten River (Staten Riuier) · Carpentaria
Northern Territory

Vanderlin Island (Cap Vanderlin) · Groote Eylandt · Arnhem Land (Arnhems Landt) · Crocodile Islands (Cocodrils Eÿlandt) · Van Diemen Gulf (Baÿa van-Diemen)
Western Australia

Houtman Abrolhos2 · Rottnest Island (Eyland Rottenest) · Swan River (Swarte Swaene-Revier)
South Australia

St Francis Island (Eyland St. Francois) · St Peter Island (Eyland St. Pierre)
Tasmania

Maatsuyker Island (Maetsuickers eylan) · Pedra Branca2 · Storm Bay · Maria Island (Marias Eylandt) · Schouten Island (Schoute Eylandt)

Notes: 1with the name still in use in either original or Anglicised version · 2Named by the Dutch, but a Portuguese name · Many names have been Anglicised; (for these the original Dutch name appears in brackets)