Seal Rocks (Victoria)

Seal Rocks
Seal Rocks is located in Victoria
Seal Rocks
Seal Rocks
Etymologyfur seal (Grant, 1801)[1]
Geography
LocationBass Strait
Coordinates38°31′34″S 145°05′59″E / 38.525996°S 145.099601°E / -38.525996; 145.099601
Area2.8 ha (6.9 acres)[2]
Highest elevation12 m (39 ft)[2]
Administration
Australia
StateVictoria
Demographics
Population0

Seal Rocks comprises two small islets – Seal Rock and Black Rock – 1.5 kilometres (0.9 mi) south-west of Phillip Island in Victoria, Australia[2] at the western entrance to Western Port.

They were named Seal Islands by James Grant in HMS Lady Nelson in January 1801.[1][3]

  1. ^ a b Grant, James (1803). The narrative of a voyage of discovery, performed in His Majesty's vessel the Lady Nelson, of sixty tons burthen: with sliding keels, in the years 1800, 1801, and 1802, to New South Wales. Printed by C. Roworth for T. Egerton. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-7243-0036-5. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  2. ^ a b c Warneke, Robert M.; Dann, Peter (2013). "Birds of Seal Rocks in northern Bass Strait over 40 years (1965-2005)". The Victorian Naturalist. 130 (1): 4–21.
  3. ^ Barrallier, Francis; Grant, James (1803), Chart of Western Port and coast to Wilson's Promontory forming part of the North side of Bass's Strait, Hydrographical Office : Published according to Act of Parliament, by A. Dalrymple Hydrographer to the Admiralty, retrieved 24 January 2012