Reevesby Island
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Reevesby Island
Location of Reevesby Island (South Australia)
Reevesby Island is a small, uninhabited island in the Sir Joseph Banks group of islands in southern Spencer Gulf, South Australia. Since 2018, a group of volunteers now known as the Friends of Reevesby Island have been restoring the old homestead on the island, which was inhabited until it became a conservation park in 1974. Author and local historian Eric Kotz is a member. The homestead is encircled by a low fence which was built to keep the island's resident Tiger snakes and Death adders away from the island's human inhabitants.[1] The island is one of the largest in the Sir Joseph Banks Conservation Park and is home to many unique species including greater stick-nest rats, hooded plovers, little penguins and Cape Barren geese.[2]
References
- ^ "Preserving 'rough' history on island paradise a game of snakes and death adders". ABC News. 2021-01-19. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
- ^ "Success stories". National Parks and Wildlife Service South Australia. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
