Bernier Island

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Bernier Iceland is an elongated island off the west coast of Australia.

Geography

The approximately 50 kilometers west of Carnarvon lying island is 45 km ² in size and deep by a four-meter and 500 -meter-wide Sund separated from the neighboring Southern Dorre Iceland. 400 m to the north lies the tiny coke Iceland.

The island belongs to Bernier and Dorre Iceland Nature Reserve in Shark Bay, Western Australia.

History

Bernier and Dorre Iceland Iceland have already been discovered by the Dutch navigator Dirk Hartog beginning of the 17th century. In 1801, the French astronomer Pierre -François Bernier visited the island named after him. Bernier reported that the island would not be suitable, inter alia due to freshwater shortage for a permanent settlement.

At the beginning of the 19th century a medical isolation on the island was built. The islands are now uninhabited, but is home to some of the last copies of the banded hare kangaroos ( Lagostrophus fasciatus ).