Eagle Island (Western Australia)
Eagle Island
Location of Eagle Island (Western Australia)
Eagle Island is about 200 metres from Eagle Bluff on the Peron Peninsula in Shark Bay World Heritage Site in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia.
It is a sand island with an area of about 1000 square metres (11000 ft²), and an elevation of eight metres (26 ft).
The island's vegetation is a closed heath, of which the dominant plant species is Nitraria billardierei (Nitre Bush). Other plant species include Limonium salicorniaceum; Sporobulus virginicus; species of Calandrinia, Pelargonium, Poa and Selenothamnus; and an introduced species of Chenopodium. Silver Gulls nest on the island, and a small number of Pied Cormorants roost there.
References
- Eagle Island in the Gazetteer of Australia online
- Abbott, Ian (1980). "The Floras of 37 South-western Australian Islands". Western Australian Herbarium Research Notes (3): 19–36.