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Great Glennie Island

Island in Victoria, Australia

39°5′6″S 146°13′52″E / 39.08500°S 146.23111°E / -39.08500; 146.23111Area138 ha (340 acres)^[1]Length3 km (1.9 mi)^[1]Width0.6 km (0.37 mi)^[1]Highest elevation140 m (460 ft)^[1]Administration

Australia

StateVictoria

Great Glennie Island is a small, rugged, granite island in the Glennie group of islands off the west coast of Wilsons Promontory, Victoria, Australia.^[1] It is part of the Wilsons Promontory Islands Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance for breeding seabirds.^[2]

The island was sighted by Lieutenant James Grant, in Lady Nelson, on 10 December 1800 and named "after Mr. George Glennie, a particular friend of Captain Schank’s, to whom I was under personal obligations".^[3]^[4]

External links

Parks Victoria - Wilsons Promontory Marine National Park

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Harris, M. P.; Brown, R. S.; Wainer, J (November 1980). "Seabird Islands No 94, Great Glennie Island, Glennie Group, Victoria" (PDF). Corella. 4 (4): 93–95.
^ "IBA: Wilsons Promontory Islands". Birdata. Birds Australia. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 29 November 2011.
^ Eccleston, Gregory C. (2012). The Early Charting of Victoria's Coastline. Australian and New Zealand Map Society. p. 23.
^ Grant, James (1803). The narrative of a voyage of discovery, performed in His Majesty's vessel the Lady Nelson, of sixty tons burthen: with sliding keels, in the years 1800, 1801, and 1802, to New South Wales. Printed by C. Roworth for T. Egerton. p. 79.