Everything about Carnac Island totally explained
Carnac Island,
Western Australia .Is an A Class nature reserve approximately 10 kilometres south west of
Fremantle
In
1803,
French explorer
Louis de Freycinet, captain of the
Casuarina, named the island
Île Pelée (
Bald Island). It was also known as
Île Lévilian and later
Île Berthelot. In
1827,
James Stirling changed its name to
Pulo Carnac Island in honour of
John Rivett Carnac, Second Lieutenant on his ship
HMS Success. "Pulo" is
Malay for "Island"; it isn't known why Stirling included the term, and it was soon dropped.
In the early days of the
Swan River Colony the island was used as a penal settlement for
Indigenous Australians.
The island is home to
Australian Sea Lions,
Bottlenose Dolphins and a large range of marine bird life. It is particularly noted for the abundance of snakes, particularly
Tiger Snakes, which live on the island. For this reason, very few people venture onto the island. There is no permanent fresh water on the island, and this provides a challenge for the permanent species
on the island. The origins of the
Tiger Snake colony has attracted significant debate and research into how that species has adapted to a harsh island habitat.
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