The island has a total area of 2 hectares (5 acres) and was designated as a Class 1A Nature Reserve in 1988.[1]
The nearest point on the mainland, Bayonet Head, is located approximately 750 metres (2,461 ft) northwest of the island.
History
Green Island was named by George Vancouver, who also named Oyster Harbour when he visited the area in 1791. It is one of only four permanent pelican breeding grounds in Western Australia, the others being Mandurah, Shark Bay and Rockingham. The breeding pelicans can be seen from the Kalgan Queen Riverboat, as the Island itself is a reserve.[2]
When the colony in Albany was first settled in 1826, Green Island was planted for vegetables. By 1830 it supported a vegetable garden, and a hut was erected on the island for the gardener to live in.[3]
In 1827 a group of sealers took 5 Aborigines to Green Island to catch birds. The sealers rowed away, leaving the Aborigines behind, then returned the next day bringing water. The Aborigines attempted to take the boat, and the sealers fired on them killing one Aboriginal man.[4] The remaining Aborigines were removed to Michaelmas Island and left there making "great lamentations".[4]
In 1991 the government department Fisheries Western Australia granted a fish farm license to the company Ocean Foods who have leases north and northeast of Green Island where blue mussels are farmed.[5]
Fauna
The island is noted as an important breeding ground for small numbers of the Australian pelican. It was estimated in 1993 that 7 active nests were located on the island.[6]
Green Island from Bayonet Head
Green Island in Oyster Harbour from the lookout at Bayonet Head
References
^. 2004. Archived from the original on 28 March 2011. Retrieved 14 October 2010.
^"Complicating the Friendly Frontier - Snake Bite, Medicine and Sorcery at King George Sound, 1830". 2004. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 14 April 2008.
^ ab"SIOE 2002: Albany & SE Western Australia; Major Edmund Lockyer's "...complete Set of Pirates"". 2009. Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
^"Albany Waterways Resource Book". 1999. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
^"Aussie Heritage - Oyster Harbour". 2007. Retrieved 17 April 2008.
February 13, 2023
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