Gambier Islands (South Australia)

This article is about the Gambier Islands located in South Australia. For the Island in Canada, see Gambier Island. For the Islands in Polynesia, see Gambier Islands .

Gambier Islands
Geography

Location	Spencer Gulf
Country
Australia

The Gambier Islands are a small group of islands lying between the southern tips of the Eyre and Yorke Peninsulas at the entrance to Spencer Gulf in South Australia. The islands lie within the 120 km² Gambier Islands Group Marine Park.

Description

By far the largest island in the group, at about 10 km² in area, is Wedge Island. The others are North Island, South West Rock and Peaked Rocks. Except for Wedge Island, the group constitutes the Gambier Islands Conservation Park. Wedge Island is partly crown land and partly privately owned; it was used for farming for 130 years following European settlement of the region, and holds several buildings, mainly used as tourist accommodation, an airstrip, pier and a lighthouse. The waters around the islands are extensively used for commercial and recreational fishing and for recreational diving.^[1]^[2]

Wildlife

Australian sea lions breed on the islands, and New Zealand fur seals may haul out there. Seabirds for which the islands are important include little penguins, short-tailed shearwaters and white-faced storm petrels. Other birds recorded there include rock parrots, bush stone-curlews, peregrine falcons, ospreys and white-bellied sea eagles.^[1]

References

1 2 "Gambier Islands Group Marine Park" (PDF). Marine Park 8. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 2011-11-22.
↑ Department of Environment and Natural Resources. (2010). Environmental, Economic and Social Values of the Gambier Islands Group Marine Park. (Department of Environment and Natural Resources, South Australia).

Islands of South Australia

West coast of Eyre Peninsula

Generally	Avoid Bay Islands Black Rocks Sudden Jerk Baird Bay Jones Unnamed Cap Eba Germein Greenly Liguanea Neptune Islands Nicolas Baudin Nuyts Reef Olive Pigface Price Purdie Rocky Island (north) Rocky Island (south) Sinclair Sleaford Islands (Curta Rocks) Whidbey Isles Four Hummocks Perforated Price Island Golden Williams

Investigator Group	Flinders Pearson Isles Pearson Dorothee Veteran Isles Topgallant Waldegrave Islands Ward Islands

Nuyts Archipelago	Blefescu Breakwater Evans Eyre Franklin Gliddon Reef Goat Isles of St Francis Dog Egg Fenelon Freeling Hart Masillon Smooth St Francis West Lacy Lounds Lilliput Purdie Islands St Peter

Spencer Gulf

Generally	Bicker Isles Bird Boston Curlew Entrance Gambier Islands Wedge Grantham Goose Green Lipson Louth Rabbit Shag Tumby Wardang Weeroona

Jussieu Peninsula coastline	Carcase Rock Donington Grindall Hopkins Lewis Little Owen Smith Taylor Thistle

Sir Joseph Banks Group	Blyth Boucaut Dalby Dangerous Reef Duffield English Hareby Kirkby Langton Lusby Marum Partney Reevesby Roxby Seal Rock Sibsey Spilsby Stickney Winceby

Pondalowie Bay	Royston Middle South

Investigator Strait

Kangaroo Island

Main article	Kangaroo Island

Nepean Bay	Beatrice Islets Busby Islet Pelican Lagoon Islets

West and south coasts	Casuarina Islets Douglas Rock Lipson Reef Nobby Islet North Rock Paisley Islet Pelorus Islet South West Rock Unnamed island (Hanson Bay) Young Rock

Gulf St Vincent

Backstairs Passage

The Pages

Encounter Bay and adjoining waters

South east coast

Mainland

Artificial islands	Delfin

Murray River	List of Murray River islands Hindmarsh Pomanda

Category
Commons

Coordinates: 35°09′S 136°28′E / 35.150°S 136.467°E / -35.150; 136.467

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