St Peter Island (South Australia)

Island in South Australia

St Peter Island

The island appears on this 1644 map as "I St. Pierre"

St Peter Island

Geography
Location| Great Australian Bight
Coordinates| 32°17′S 133°34′E﻿ / ﻿32.283°S 133.567°E﻿ / -32.283; 133.567
Archipelago| Nuyts Archipelago
Administration

Australia

St Peter Island (originally in Dutch: Eyland St. Pierre) is an island in the Nuyts Archipelago on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia near Ceduna. It is the second largest island in South Australia and about 13 km (8.1 mi) 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 François Thijssen in 't Gulden Zeepaert in 1627.

Seal hunting took place on the island in the 1820s and 1830s.[2] Archaeological investigations have also located whale vertebra at the site.

The historic St Peter Island Whaling Sites are listed on the South Australian Heritage Register as a designated place of archaeological significance.[3]

## Protected area status[edit]

### Statutory reserves[edit]

The island is part of the Nuyts Archipelago Conservation Park while the waters surrounding its shores are in the Nuyts Archipelago Marine Park.[4][5][6]

### Non-statutory arrangements[edit]

#### Important Bird Area[edit]

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.[7] The island lies across the Yatala Channel from the separate Tourville and Murat Bays Important Bird Area, just west of Ceduna on the mainland.[8]

## See also[edit]

* List of islands of Australia
* Woylie
* Greater stick-nest rat

## Notes[edit]

1. ^ "Pieter Nuyts". Flinders Rangers Research. Retrieved 23 July 2008.
2. ^ Kostoglou, Parry; McCarthy, Justin (1991). Whaling and sealing sites in South Australia. Fremantle, WA: Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. pp. 47–50.
3. ^ "St Peter Island Whaling Sites, Nuyts Archipelago Conservation Park (designated places of archaeological significance)". South Australian Heritage Register. Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
4. ^ Wilderness Advisory Committee Annual Report 2012-13 (PDF) (Report). September 2013. pp. 18 & 23\. ISSN 1832-9357. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
5. ^ Anon (2006). Island Parks of Western Eyre Peninsula Management Plan (PDF). Adelaide: Department for Environment and Heritage, South Australia. p. 2\. ISBN 1-921238-18-6.
6. ^ "NUYTS ARCHIPELAGO MARINE PARK MANAGEMENT PLAN 2012" (PDF). Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. p. 5. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
7. ^ "IBA: Nuyts Archipelago". Birdata. Birds Australia. Retrieved 5 September 2011.
8. ^ BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Tourville and Murat Bays. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 2011-11-07.

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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
* Curta Rocks
* Whidbey Isles
* Four Hummocks
* Perforated
* Price Island
* Golden
* Williams

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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

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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|

* Althorpe Islands
* Althorpe
* Haystack
* Seal
* Chinamans Hat

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|

* Garden
* Torrens
* Troubridge

Backstairs Passage|

* The Pages

Encounter Bay and adjoining waters|

* Granite
* Pullen
* Seal
* West
* Wright

South east coast|

* Baudin Rocks
* Penguin

Mainland|

| Artificial islands|

* Delfin

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Murray River|

* List of Murray River islands
* Hindmarsh
* Pomanda

* Category
* Commons

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Australian places named by Dutch navigators, explorers and cartographers in the Age of Discovery1

Australian continent /
Australian mainland|

* Eendrachtsland
* Nova Hollandia / Nieuw Holland

Queensland|

* Coen River
* Staaten River (Staten Rivier)
* Gulf of Carpentaria
* Sweers Island

Northern Territory|

* Vanderlin Island (Cap Vanderlin)
* Groote Eylandt
* Arnhem Land (Arnhems Landt)
* Crocodile Islands (Cocodrils Eÿlandt)
* Van Diemen Gulf (Baÿa Van Diemen)
* Wessel Islands

Western Australia|

* Cape Leeuwin (Landt van de Leeuwin)
* Dirk Hartog Island
* Nuyts Land District (Land van Pieter Nuyts)
* Houtman Abrolhos2
* Pelsaert Group
* Pelsaert Island
* Rottnest Island ('t Eylandt 't Rottenest)
* Swan River (Swarte Swaene-Rivier)

South Australia|

* Nuyts Archipelago
* St Francis Island (Eyland St. Francois)
* St Peter Island (Eyland St. Pierre)

Tasmania|

* Van Diemen's Land / Anthonie van Diemenslandt (mainland Tasmania)
* De Witt Island
* Maatsuyker Island (Maetsuickers Eylandt)
* Pedra Branca2
* Storm Bay
* Maria Island (Maria's Eylandt)
* Schouten Island (Schoute Eylandt)

Related topics|

* European maritime exploration of Australia
* European land exploration of Australia
* Dutch mapping of Australasia
* Dutch mapping of the Australian continent
* Dutch mapping of the Australian mainland
* Dutch mapping of Nova Hollandia
* Dutch mapping of Tasmania
* Early modern Netherlandish cartography

* 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

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