Bald Island

For Bald Island (Lake Ontario), see Weller's Bay.

Bald Island
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Geography
Coordinates34°55′9.07″S 118°27′45.48″E / 34.9191861°S 118.4626333°E / -34.9191861; 118.4626333
Administration
Satellite image of Bald Island on 11th January, 2008.
Satellite image of Bald Island on 11th January, 2008.

Bald Island is an island that is located in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. The island is 1.5 kilometres (1 mi) offshore from Cheynes Beach and is a protected area managed by the Department of Parks and Wildlife.

The island is a World Conservation Union Category IA nature reserve. (A Class A Nature Reserve, No 25869, managed by Parks and Wildlife was created in 1964.)[1] With an area of 8.09 square kilometres (1,999 acres)[2] the island is one of the largest off the South Coast. Composed almost entirely of granite the island rises steeply from the ocean to a maximum height of 310 metres (1,017 ft). The island was isolated around 10,000 years ago by rising sea levels.[3]

  1. ^ "Department of Environment - Terrestrial Protected Areas - Western Australia". 1998. Archived from the original on 28 March 2011. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
  2. ^ "Naturebase - Gilbert's Potoroo Research Activities". 2007. Retrieved 7 October 2007.
  3. ^ E. A. Sinclair (1998). "Morphological variation among populations of the quokka, Setonix brachyurus (Macropodidae : Marsupialia), in Western Australia" (PDF). Australian Journal of Zoology. 46 (5). CSIRO Publishing: 439–449. doi:10.1071/ZO98014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 January 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2012.