St Peter Island
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The island appears on this 1644 map as "I St. Pierre"
St Peter Island is an island on the south coast of South Australia near Ceduna to the south of Denial Bay. It is the second largest island in South Australia and about 13km long.[1] It was one of the first parts of South Australia to be discovered and named by Europeans, along with St Francis Island, mapped by François Thijssen in 1627.
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The island is part of the Nuyts Archipelago Important Bird Area (IBA), so identified by BirdLife International because it supports over 1% of the world populations of Short-tailed Shearwaters, White-faced Storm-Petrels and Pied Oystercatchers.[2] The island lies across the Yatala Channel from the separate Tourville and Murat Bays Important Bird Area, just west of Ceduna on the mainland.[3]
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Notes: 1with the name still in use in either original or Anglicised version · 2Named by the Dutch, but a Portuguese name · Many names have been Anglicised; (for these the original Dutch name appears in brackets)
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Coordinates: 32°17′S 133°34′E / 32.283°S 133.567°E / -32.283; 133.567
