Dorre Island
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| Waters | Indian Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 25 ° 7 ′ S , 113 ° 6 ′ E | |
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| length | 31.8 km | |
| width | 3.8 km | |
| surface | 60 km² | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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Dorre Island is a 30 kilometers long, very narrow island off the west coast of Australia .
The island, 57 kilometers southwest of the city of Carnarvon , was the location of a medical isolation ward at the beginning of the 19th century. The now uninhabited and approximately 60 km² island is only separated from northern Bernier Island by a 500 meter wide sound .
Today the island is home to some of the last specimens of the banded hare kangaroo ( Lagostrophus fasciatus ).
It belongs to Bernier and Dorre Iceland Nature Reserve , one in the Shark Bay in Western Australia located nature reserve , and may be entered for the protection of wildlife only with special permission.
Web links
- Historical use of the island (Engl.)