Clonmel Island is a sand island in

Corner Inlet The Corner Inlet is a bay located south-east of Melbourne in the South Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. Of Victoria's large bays it is both the easternmost and the warmest. It contains intertidal mudflats, mangroves, salt marsh and s ...

, in the

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region of

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. Clonmel Island lies within the Nooramunga Marine and Coastal Park and is part of a complex of barrier islands that protect a large marine embayment from the pounding waves of

Bass Strait Bass Strait () is a strait separating the island state of Tasmania from the Australian mainland (more specifically the coast of Victoria, with the exception of the land border across Boundary Islet). The strait provides the most direct waterwa ...

History

The island is named after the paddle steamer

PS Clonmel ''Clonmel'' was a three-masted wooden paddle steamer built in Birkenhead, England, in 1836. ''Clonmel'' was one of the first steam-powered vessels on the Australian coast. It ran aground in the early hours of 2 January 1841, or the 3rd. and was w ...

which was wrecked in the Port Albert Entrance to Corner Inlet, immediately east of the island, in 1841.

References

Islands of Victoria (Australia) Gippsland {{Gippsland-geo-stub