The Tenth Island, sometimes called Barrenjoey, part of the Waterhouse Island Group, is a 900-square-metre (9,700 sq ft) uninhabited graniteislet and nature reserve, situated in Bass Strait, lying close to the north-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia. The islet has no vegetation and much of it is wave-washed in winter storms.[1] The Aboriginal name for the island is recorded as Roobala mangana.[2]
Tenth Island (Roobala mangana)
Nickname: Barrenjoey
Tenth Island (Roobala mangana)
Location of Tenth Island off the coast of Tasmania
In the waters surrounding Tenth Island, Therese Cartwright, aged 35 years and a mother of five children, was killed as a result of a human shark attack fatality on 5 June 1993 when a reportedly 5-metre (16 ft) long great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) attacked Cartwright while she was scuba diving at the seal colony.[4][5]
^ abcBrothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; & Halley, Vanessa. (2001). Tasmania’s Offshore Islands: seabirds and other natural features. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery: Hobart. ISBN0-7246-4816-X
^Milligan, Joseph (1858). "On the dialects and languages of the Aboriginal Tribes of Tasmania, and on their manners and customs" (PDF). Papers of the Royal Society of Tasmania: 270.
^"Small Bass Strait Island Reserves. Draft Management Plan". Department of Primary Industries,Water and Environment. Tasmanian Government. October 2000. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
^World Shark Attack Database: Fatal Shark Attack, Cartwright 22 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine
^"Tassie's history of sharks". The Mercury. Hobart. 12 January 2009.
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