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Cervantes Islands
Location of Cervantes Islands in Western Australia

The Cervantes Islands are a small group of islands in Western Australia, found to the south west of Cervantes.

Western Australia state in Australia

Western Australia is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, and the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Australia is Australia's largest state, with a total land area of 2,529,875 square kilometres, and the second-largest country subdivision in the world, surpassed only by Russia's Sakha Republic. The state has about 2.6 million inhabitants – around 11 percent of the national total – of whom the vast majority live in the south-west corner, 79 per cent of the population living in the Perth area, leaving the remainder of the state sparsely populated.

Cervantes, Western Australia Town in Western Australia

Cervantes is a town in Western Australia off Indian Ocean Drive about 198 kilometres (123 mi) north-north-west of the state capital, Perth in the Shire of Dandaragan local government area. At the 2011 census, Cervantes had a population of 467. The town was named after a ship that was wrecked nearby. The ship, in turn, was named after Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote.

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Island group

The Cervantes Islands are a group of three individual islands:

The group sits within the Jurien Bay Marine Park [2] and the Turquoise Coast islands nature reserve group, a chain of 40 islands spread over a distance of 150 kilometres (93 mi). [1]

Jurien Bay Marine Park Protected area in Western Australia

The Jurien Bay Marine Park is a protected marine park that is located 200 to 300 kilometres north of Perth, off the coastal tip of the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. The 82,375-hectare (203,550-acre) marine park was formally declared on 31 August 2003 and is situated along the Indian Ocean Drive that extends south from Green Head to the southern boundary of Nambung National Park. It includes many of the islands located in this region.

Turquoise Coast (Western Australia)

Turquoise Coast is a name attributed to a section of the coastline of Western Australia in the vicinity of Jurien Bay.

The islands are named for an American whaling ship that was wrecked off the North island in 1844. [3] The ship was named after the writer Miguel de Cervantes. [4]

Miguel de Cervantes Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. His novel Don Quixote has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects; it is, after the Bible, the most-translated book in the world.

The Australian sea lion is known to inhabit the islands. [5]

Australian sea lion species of mammal

The Australian sea lion also known as the Australian sea-lion or Australian sealion, is a species of sea lion that is the only endemic pinniped in Australia. It is currently monotypic in the genus Neophoca, with the extinct Pleistocene New Zealand sea lion Neophoca palatina the only known congener. These sea lions are sparsely distributed through Houtman Arbrolhos Islands in Western Australia and The Pages Islands in Southern Australia. With a population estimated at around 14,730 animals, the Wildlife Conservation Act of Western Australia (1950) has listed them as “in need of special protection”. Their Conservation status is listed as endangered. These pinnipeds are specifically known for their abnormal breeding cycles, which are varied between 5 months breeding cycle and a 17-18 month aseasonal breeding cycle, compared to other pinnipeds which fit into a 12-month reproductive cycle. Females are either silver or fawn with a cream underbelly and males are dark chocolate brown with a yellow mane and are bigger than the females.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Turquoise Coast islands nature reserves management plan" (PDF). Government of Western Australia. 2004. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  2. ↑ "Nambung National Park, Hangover Bay and Kangaroo Point". Pinnacles Visitor Centre. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  3. ↑ "Shipwrecks Audio Transcript - Tilting at whales". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 2003. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  4. ↑ Maria Elena Knolle Cano. "The Spanish vs the Australian Cervantes". Spanish Australia Magazine. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  5. ↑ "Seal Watching Tours". Lobster Shack. 2015.

Coordinates: 30°31′25″S115°2′40″E / 30.52361°S 115.04444°E / -30.52361; 115.04444

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