Entrance Island is a low island located inside the mouth of
Franklin Harbor,
Eyre Peninsula
The Eyre Peninsula is a triangular peninsula in South Australia. It is bounded by the Spencer Gulf on the east, the Great Australian Bight on the west, and the Gawler Ranges to the north.
Earlier called Eyre's Peninsula, it was named after e ...
in
South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, which in ...
. The island comprises approximately , and falls within the boundaries of the
Franklin Harbor Conservation Park and
Franklin Harbor Marine Park. Its maximum elevation is approximately 4 metres. The island provides roosting and nesting habitat for a variety of sea and shorebird species.
On September 23, 1910, some shearers working on Entrance Island observed a distressed
whale
Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully Aquatic animal, aquatic placental mammal, placental marine mammals. As an informal and Colloquialism, colloquial grouping, they correspond to large members of the infraorder Cetacea ...
reported to be 90 feet long. It had become stranded at low tide, and it escaped when the tide rose.
"A whale at Cowell"
''The Advertiser'' (1910-09-27). Retrieved 2014-01-11. Smaller southern right whale
The southern right whale (''Eubalaena australis'') is a baleen whale, one of three species classified as right whales belonging to the genus ''Eubalaena''. Southern right whales inhabit oceans south of the Equator, between the latitudes of 20� ...
s have also been observed from Entrance Island.
References
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Islands of South Australia
Spencer Gulf
Eyre Peninsula