St Peter Island was
named in 1627 by Pieter Nuyts after his patron saint. It lies in relatively
shallow water 5km from the mainland. Due to its size and accessibility, St
Peter Island was used for agriculture from 1859 until its addition to the Nuyts
Archipelago Conservation Park in 1988. The island is part of the Nuyts
Archipelago Conservation Park while the waters surrounding its shores are
in the Nuyts Archipelago Marine Park.
St Peter Island is classified
as an Important Bird Area 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.
The biggest concern
is that St Peters Island has a large population of Black Tiger Snakes and the
mortality rate of this snake is up to 60%, considering I’m by myself on the
island I need to take great precautions to avoid this venomous snake. The camp
will be set up on the beach to avoid any grassland and hopefully to lessen the
encounters with them. They do feed at night and so I need to be careful
refuelling the generator etc.
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