Seal Island () is located near

Augusta, Western Australia Augusta is a town on the south-west coast of Western Australia, where the Blackwood River flows into Flinders Bay. It is the nearest town to Cape Leeuwin, on the furthest southwest corner of the Australian continent. In the it had a populatio ...

in the South West region.

Gazetteer of Australia The Gazetteer of Australia is an index or dictionary of the location and spelling of geographical names across Australia. Geographic names include towns, suburbs and roads, plus geographical features such as hills, rivers, and lakes. The index is ...

(1996). Belconnen, ACT: Australian Surveying and Land Information Group. It is located just east of

Cape Leeuwin Cape Leeuwin is the most south-westerly (but not most southerly) mainland point of the Australian continent, in the state of Western Australia. Description A few small islands and rocks, the St Alouarn Islands, extend further in Flinders ...

, and lies closer to land than Saint Alouarn Island which lies further to the south. Point Matthew lookout plaque

The Point Matthew lookout is the highest point of land on the road leading to the

Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse __NOTOC__ The Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse is a lighthouse located on the headland of Cape Leeuwin, the most south-westerly point on the mainland of the Australian Continent, in the state of Western Australia. Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse was construct ...

. It is the location of a plaque commemorating Captain

Matthew Flinders Captain (Royal Navy), Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was a British Royal Navy officer, navigator and cartographer who led the first littoral zone, inshore circumnavigate, circumnavigation of mainland Australia, then ...

' circumnavigation of the continent in 1801–1803. Seal Island is very low lying, and is small in area close to . It can be awash in severe weather. When viewed from beaches at sea level on adjacent coast, its height above sea level is negligible, however one map shows 9 metres maximum height of any part of the rock. It was vested as an A class reserve with the WA Wildlife Authority in 1960 for the conservation of fauna and its name was slightly altered in 1972, and 1979. Murray and Hercock consider its naming was by Vancouver in 1791, however, it is located near a series of unmarked and barely detectable below surface rocks (the reason for the sinking of the '' SS Pericles'' in 1913), however the name was also recorded by Archdeacon in 1878. Seal Island near Cape Leeuwin 2013

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{{WesternAustralia-geo-stub St Alouarn Islands