Sandy Island (Windy Harbor)
| Sandy Island | ||
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| Waters | Indian Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 34 ° 52 ′ S , 116 ° 2 ′ E | |
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| surface | 0.2 | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Sandy Iceland is a 20 hectare large island , about five kilometers off the coast of Windy Harbor , south of Perth , in the southwest of Western Australia .
It is part of the D'Entrecasteaux National Park and an important breeding site for sea birds .
description
The island is oriented roughly from northwest to southeast, about 800 meters long and 300 meters wide, flat and mostly sandy. There is a section of limestone and dunes at the northwest end. The southern coastline consists of migmatitic rock .
The island should not be confused with the phantom island Sandy Island , which was incorrectly listed off the east coast of Australia, in older maps between Queensland and New Caledonia .
Flora and fauna
flora
About 46 plant species were recorded. Grasses are the dominant vegetation, added, among other Carpobrotus rossii (in English Pigface = pig face ) and Lobelia anceps .
fauna
The island is the organization BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area was rated (IBA, important bird area), because of the high number of breeding birds of petrels -Art Blass foot Shearwater ( Ardenna Carneipes or Puffinus Carneipes ), with over 300,000 breeding pairs. In addition, there are a large number of brooding dwarf terns of the Australian tern ( Sternula Nereis or Sterna Nereis ), English Fairy Tern . Both species are on the Red List of Endangered Birds. Other birds that breed on the island include herring gulls , other petrel species and the sooty oystercatcher ( Haematopus fuliginosus ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Sandy Island (Windy Harbor). http://www.birdlife.org/ Retrieved October 3, 2011.
- ↑ IBA: Sandy Island (Windy Harbor) . In: Birdata . Birds Australia. Retrieved on October 3, 2011. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Evidence for Puffinus Carneipes, Sandy Island mentioned in earlier versions
