Huon Island

Huon Island is an island with an area of 47 hectares in south-eastern Australia. It is part of the Partridge Island Group, lying close to the south-eastern coast of Tasmania, in the D'Entrecasteaux Channel between Bruny Island and the mainland. The island has a small human population and has been subjected to intensive agricultural activities in the past.[1] The Nuenonne name of the island is Prahree.[2]

Flora and fauna

The vegetation is dominated by introduced grasses and bracken with some large, scattered white gums in the north-west. Recorded breeding seabird species are little penguin and short-tailed shearwater. European rabbits have been introduced to the island. The metallic skink is present.[1]

History

The first European to sight Huon Island was M. de Cretin, one of D’Entrecasteaux's officers, on May 2, 1792.[3]

References

Brothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; & Halley, Vanessa. (2001). Tasmania’s Offshore Islands: seabirds and other natural features. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery: Hobart. ISBN 0-7246-4816-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.
"TASMANIAN NOMENCLATURE". The Mercury. XCVI (12, 942). Tasmania, Australia. 16 September 1911. p. 10. Retrieved 9 June 2018 – via National Library of Australia.

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[Brothers2001-1] Brothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; & Halley, Vanessa. (2001). Tasmania’s Offshore Islands: seabirds and other natural features. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery: Hobart. ISBN 0-7246-4816-X

[2] 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.

[3] "TASMANIAN NOMENCLATURE". The Mercury. XCVI (12, 942). Tasmania, Australia. 16 September 1911. p. 10. Retrieved 9 June 2018 – via National Library of Australia.