Great Glennie Island - Island

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Great Glennie Island is a small, rugged, granite island in the Glennie group of islands off the west coast of Wilsons Promontory, Victoria, Australia.[1] It is part of the Wilsons Promontory Islands Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance for breeding seabirds.[2]

Great Glennie Island
Geography
Great Glennie Island
Etymology	George Glennie, by James Grant in Lady Nelson (1800)
Location	Bass Strait
Coordinates	39°5′6″S 146°13′52″E
Area	138 ha (340 acres)[1]
Length	3 km (1.9 mi)[1]
Width	0.6 km (0.37 mi)[1]
Highest elevation	140 m (460 ft)[1]
Administration
Australia
State	Victoria

The island was sighted by Lieutenant James Grant, in Lady Nelson, on 10 December 1800 and named "after Mr. George Glennie, a particular friend of Captain Schank’s, to whom I was under personal obligations".[3][4]

External links

Parks Victoria - Wilsons Promontory Marine National Park

References

Harris, M. P.; Brown, R. S.; Wainer, J (November 1980). "Seabird Islands No 94, Great Glennie Island, Glennie Group, Victoria" (PDF). Corella. 4 (4): 93–95.
"IBA: Wilsons Promontory Islands". Birdata. Birds Australia. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 29 November 2011.
Eccleston, Gregory C. (2012). The Early Charting of Victoria's Coastline. Australian and New Zealand Map Society. p. 23.
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. 79.

v t e Islands and islets of Victoria, Australia
Near East Gippsland	Gabo The Skerries Tullaberga
Near Corner Inlet	Bennison Bullock Calf Clonmel Corner Cyril Dog Doughboy Drum East Scrubby Granite Horn Hunter Little Dog Little Snake Long One Tree Pelican Rescue Roberts Saint Margaret Scrubby Shag Sheep Snake Spec Sunday
Near Wilsons Promontory	Anser Group Anser Cleft Kanowna Glennie Group Citadel Dannevig Great Glennie McHugh Hogan Group Northern Boundary Seal Islands Group Cliffy Notch Rag Seal Norman Rabbit Rabbit Rock Shellback Wattle
In Western Port	Barrallier Chinaman Churchill Elizabeth French Joe Long Middle Spit Pelican Phillip Quail Ram Reef Seal Rocks Sandstone Schnapper Rock Tortoise Head Bank
In Port Phillip	Duck Mud Pope's Eye South Channel Fort Swan
Near Portland Bay	Griffiths Lady Julia Percy Lawrence Rocks Middle
In rivers	Beveridge Coode Gateway Herring Pental Raymond Rotamah The Island Ulupna
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Great Glennie Island è un'isola di granito situata nello stretto di Bass, a sud-ovest del Wilsons Promontory, nello stato di Victoria, in Australia. L'isola è la maggiore del Glennie Group, di cui fanno parte Dannevig Island, Citadel Island e McHugh Island, situate tutte a sud di Great Glennie.

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