Cape Barren Island

Cape Barren Iceland is an island of the Furneaux Group in Bass Strait between Tasmania and Australia. It has an area of 464 km ². The largest island of the group, Flinders Iceland, on the north, the smaller island Clarke south Iceland.

The highest point of the island is Mount Munro 687 m. This may have been after James Munro (ca. 1779-1845 ), a former convict and later sealers and beach runner named for the more than 20 years had lived since the 1820s on the nearby island of Iceland Preservation and there were several women.

Australia's only native goose, the goose hen, was first discovered here.

On the island of 268 people ( as of 2006), most of them in the settlement The Corner on the northeast coast. There is also a post office, an Anglican church, a helipad for emergencies and at 3 km an aircraft landing site. In the village there is also a shop, an infirmary and a small primary school with 2005, only 8 students and a teacher.

The island is once approached the month from a supply ship.

Most of the inhabitants are descendants of European whalers with Tasmanierinnen who were kidnapped here from Tasmania.

On 10 May 2005, the government handed crown land on Cape Barren and Clarke Iceland in the management of the local Aboriginal community. This was the first case of a transfer of ownership of Crown land to the Aboriginal community in Tasmania.

The island can be reached from the adjacent Flinders Iceland with a short boat ride or plane. Flinders Iceland is served by Melbourne in Australia and Launceston in Tasmania.

Cape Barren is like the other islands of the Furneaux Group is a popular destination for sea kayak drivers who cross the Bass Strait from Wilsons Promontory in Australia to Tasmania.

12,000 years ago, the island group was a land bridge connecting Australia and Tasmania because of the sunken due to the ice age sea levels.

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• Island (Australia and Oceania)
• Island ( Tasmania )
• Island ( Pacific Ocean )
• Bass Strait