Seal Island is located near
Shoalwater, Western Australia in the
Perth 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 incorporated into the Shoalwater Bay Islands Nature Reserve, and surrounded by the
Shoalwater Islands Marine Park
The Shoalwater Islands Marine Park is a protected marine park located in Western Australia and stretches from the northern point of the Garden Island Causeway to the southern point of Becher Point. The marine park is located offshore from t ...
.
In December 2016, a rare birth of a
southern elephant seal
The southern elephant seal (''Mirounga leonina'') is one of two species of elephant seals. It is the largest member of the clade Pinnipedia and the order Carnivora, as well as the largest extant marine mammal that is not a cetacean. It gets its ...
pup on the island was just the third such event recorded in Western Australia in 20 years and only the tenth in Australia since 1958.
See also
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Islands of Perth, Western Australia
Perth, Western Australia hosts a variety of unique and biodiversity, biologically diverse habitats found nowhere else on Earth. Many of these habitats include islands. Islands provide habitat and safe refuge for endangered native fauna as they ...
References
Islands of the Perth region (Western Australia)
Shoalwater Islands Marine Park
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