Preservation Island

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Preservation Iceland is a flat and only 207 acre island in the southeast of Australia.

The island is located in the eastern Bass Strait, southwest of the Cape Barren Iceland and is part of belonging to Tasmania Furneaux Island group. The name " life raft " or "Protection Island " is based on the wreck of the sailing ship " Sydney Cove ", the February 8, 1797 on the way from Calcutta (India ) to Port Jackson, the Sydney Harbour, beached there, even before the island was ever officially discovered in 1798 in the wake of the discovery of Bass Strait by George Bass and Matthew Flinders.

In the following period the island in the early 19th century to the headquarters for sealers as James Munro was the "King of the Eastern Straits ," who lived with some Aboriginal wives and their children there.