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Carnac Island
Carnac Island (Nyungar: Ngoorloormayup, lit. 'place of little brother') is a 19-hectare (47-acre), A-Class, island nature reserve about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) south-west of Fremantle and 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) north of Garden Island in Western Australia.
Carnac Island is aeolianite limestone remnant of Pleistocene dunes.
In 1803, French explorer Louis de Freycinet, captain of Casuarina, named the island Île Pelée ('Bald Island'). It was also known as Île Lévilian and later Île Berthelot. In 1827, James Stirling changed its name to Pulo Carnac Island in honour of John Rivett Carnac, Second Lieutenant on his ship HMS Success. Pulo is Malay for 'island'; it is not known why Stirling included the term, and it was soon dropped.
From 1836 to 1837, the island served as a whaling station. The whalers transported Perth's first church to the island to be used as a storehouse. It was abandoned within a few years.
From October to November 1838, the island was declared by the Swan River Colony colonial government to be a prison for indigenous Australians. The prison consisted of two guards, an overseer named Robert Menli Lyon, and three prisoners named Yagan, Danmera, and Ningina. The solitary conditions resulted in the soldiers assisting the prisoners' escape in a stolen government stores boat.
In 1884, the colonial government gazetted the island as a quarantine station for Fremantle, but it appears never to have been used for that purpose.
In 1916, the Australian Federal Government assumed control over the island for defence purposes, and the island was transferred back to the State of Western Australia in 1961.
The Carnac Island Nature Reserve was gazetted on 8 March 1963, has a size of 0.22 square kilometres (0.085 mi2), and is located within the Swan Coastal Plain bioregion. Apart from Carnac Island itself, the nature reserve includes the rocks north and south of the island.
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Carnac Island
Carnac Island (Nyungar: Ngoorloormayup, lit. 'place of little brother') is a 19-hectare (47-acre), A-Class, island nature reserve about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) south-west of Fremantle and 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) north of Garden Island in Western Australia.
Carnac Island is aeolianite limestone remnant of Pleistocene dunes.
In 1803, French explorer Louis de Freycinet, captain of Casuarina, named the island Île Pelée ('Bald Island'). It was also known as Île Lévilian and later Île Berthelot. In 1827, James Stirling changed its name to Pulo Carnac Island in honour of John Rivett Carnac, Second Lieutenant on his ship HMS Success. Pulo is Malay for 'island'; it is not known why Stirling included the term, and it was soon dropped.
From 1836 to 1837, the island served as a whaling station. The whalers transported Perth's first church to the island to be used as a storehouse. It was abandoned within a few years.
From October to November 1838, the island was declared by the Swan River Colony colonial government to be a prison for indigenous Australians. The prison consisted of two guards, an overseer named Robert Menli Lyon, and three prisoners named Yagan, Danmera, and Ningina. The solitary conditions resulted in the soldiers assisting the prisoners' escape in a stolen government stores boat.
In 1884, the colonial government gazetted the island as a quarantine station for Fremantle, but it appears never to have been used for that purpose.
In 1916, the Australian Federal Government assumed control over the island for defence purposes, and the island was transferred back to the State of Western Australia in 1961.
The Carnac Island Nature Reserve was gazetted on 8 March 1963, has a size of 0.22 square kilometres (0.085 mi2), and is located within the Swan Coastal Plain bioregion. Apart from Carnac Island itself, the nature reserve includes the rocks north and south of the island.
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