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Jones Island (South Australia)

Index Jones Island (South Australia)

Jones Island is an island in the Australian state of South Australia located at the mouth of Baird Bay in the north end of Anxious Bay about south-southeast of the town of Streaky Bay on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula. [1]

41 relations: A Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia, Anxious Bay, Australian pelican, Australian sea lion, Baird Bay, Baird Bay Islands Conservation Park, Black-faced cormorant, Calcarenite, Common starling, Disphyma, Egernia, Erodium cygnorum, Eyre Peninsula, Government of South Australia, Granite, Grazing, Great Australian Bight, Great cormorant, Greater crested tern, Hauling-out, Holocene, Island, List of islands of Australia, Little grassbird, Masked lapwing, Nitraria billardierei, Olearia axillaris, Osprey, Pasture, Premier of South Australia, Protected area, Rock parrot, Rookery, Silver gull, Sooty oystercatcher, South Australia, Streaky Bay, South Australia, Unnamed island, Baird Bay, Welcome swallow, White-faced heron, Willie wagtail.

A Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia

A Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia (DIWA) is a list of wetlands of national importance to Australia.

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Anxious Bay

Anxious Bay is a bay in the Australian state of South Australia located on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula about west north-west of Adelaide.

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Australian pelican

The Australian pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus) is a large waterbird of the family Pelecanidae, widespread on the inland and coastal waters of Australia and New Guinea, also in Fiji, parts of Indonesia and as a vagrant in New Zealand.

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Australian sea lion

The Australian sea lion (Neophoca cinerea) also known as the Australian sea-lion or Australian sealion, is a species of sea lion that is the only endemic pinniped in Australia.

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Baird Bay

Baird Bay is a small fishing village located south of Streaky Bay on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.

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Baird Bay Islands Conservation Park

Baird Bay Islands Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia associated with two islands located in Baird Bay on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula respectively about and west south-west of Streaky Bay.

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Black-faced cormorant

The black-faced cormorant (Phalacrocorax fuscescens), also known as the black-faced shag, is a medium-sized member of the cormorant family.

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Calcarenite

Calcarenite is a type of limestone that is composed predominantly, more than 50 percent, of detrital (transported) sand-size (0.0625 to 2 mm in diameter), carbonate grains.

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Common starling

The common starling (Sturnus vulgaris), also known as the European starling, or in the British Isles just the starling, is a medium-sized passerine bird in the starling family, Sturnidae.

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Disphyma

Disphyma is a monotypic genus of succulent shrubs.

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Egernia

Egernia is a genus of skinks (family Scincidae) that occurs in Australia.

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Erodium cygnorum

Erodium cygnorum is a species of herb native to Australia.

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Eyre Peninsula

The Eyre Peninsula is a triangular peninsula in South Australia.

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Government of South Australia

The Government of South Australia, also referred to as the South Australian Government, is the Australian state democratic administrative authority of South Australia.

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Granite

Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture.

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Grazing

Grazing is a method of feeding in which a herbivore feeds on plants such as grasses, or other multicellular organisms such as algae.

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Great Australian Bight

The Great Australian Bight is a large oceanic bight, or open bay, off the central and western portions of the southern coastline of mainland Australia.

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Great cormorant

The great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), known as the great black cormorant across the Northern Hemisphere, the black cormorant in Australia, the large cormorant in India and the black shag further south in New Zealand, is a widespread member of the cormorant family of seabirds.

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Greater crested tern

The greater crested tern Retrieved 28 February 2012 (Thalasseus bergii), also called crested tern or swift tern, is a tern in the family Laridae that nests in dense colonies on coastlines and islands in the tropical and subtropical Old World.

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Hauling-out

Hauling-out is a behaviour associated with pinnipeds (true seals, sea lions, fur seals and walruses) temporarily leaving the water.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch.

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Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water.

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List of islands of Australia

This is a list of selected Australian islands grouped by State or Territory.

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Little grassbird

The Little Grassbird (Megalurus gramineus) is a species of Old World warbler in the family Locustellidae.

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Masked lapwing

The masked lapwing (Vanellus miles), also known as the masked plover and often called the spur-winged plover or just plover in its native range, is a large, common and conspicuous bird native to Australia, particularly the northern and eastern parts of the continent, New Zealand and New Guinea.

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Nitraria billardierei

Nitraria billardierei is a perennial salt tolerant shrub.

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Olearia axillaris

Olearia axillaris is a shrub of the Asteraceae family, found in coastal areas of Australia.

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Osprey

The osprey or more specifically the western osprey (Pandion haliaetus) — also called sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk — is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range.

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Pasture

Pasture (from the Latin pastus, past participle of pascere, "to feed") is land used for grazing.

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Premier of South Australia

The Premier of South Australia is the head of government in the state of South Australia, Australia.

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Protected area

Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values.

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Rock parrot

The rock parrot (Neophema petrophila), also known as the rock elegant, is a parrot which is endemic to coastal South Australia, southern Western Australia, and that continent's offshore islands, including Rottnest Island.

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Rookery

A rookery is a colony of breeding animals, generally birds.

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Silver gull

The silver gull (Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae) is the most common gull seen in Australia.

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Sooty oystercatcher

The sooty oystercatcher (Haematopus fuliginosus) is a species of oystercatcher.

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South Australia

South Australia (abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.

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Streaky Bay, South Australia

Streaky Bay (formerly Flinders) is a coastal town on the western side of the Eyre Peninsula, in South Australia just off the Flinders Highway 303 km north west of Port Lincoln and 727 km by road from Adelaide.

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Unnamed island, Baird Bay

Unnamed island, Baird Bay (also known as Section 181, Hundred Wrenfordsley, County Robinson) is an island located in South Australia within Baird Bay about south by west of the town of Streaky Bay on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula.

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Welcome swallow

The welcome swallow (Hirundo neoxena) is a small passerine bird in the swallow family.

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White-faced heron

The white-faced heron (Egretta novaehollandiae) also known as the white-fronted heron, and incorrectly as the grey heron, or blue crane, is a common bird throughout most of Australasia, including New Guinea, the islands of Torres Strait, Indonesia, New Zealand, and all but the driest areas of Australia.

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Willie wagtail

The willie (or willy) wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys) is a passerine bird native to Australia, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, the Bismarck Archipelago, and Eastern Indonesia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones_Island_(South_Australia)

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