St Francis Island

Island in South Australia

32°30′43″S 133°17′29″E / 32.512005°S 133.291364°E / -32.512005; 133.291364^[1]ArchipelagoNuyts ArchipelagoAdministration

Australia

St Francis Island (originally in Dutch: Eyland St. François) is an island on the south coast of South Australia near Ceduna. It is part of the Nuyts Archipelago. It was one of the first parts of South Australia to be discovered and named by Europeans, along with St Peter Island, mapped by François Thijssen in 't Gulden Zeepaert in 1627.

Flora & Fauna

The flora and fauna of St Francis Island in the 1900s included petrels, Australian sea lions and little penguins.^[2]

Protected area status

Statutory reserves

The island is part of the Nuyts Archipelago Wilderness Protection Area while the waters surrounding its shores are within the Nuyts Archipelago Marine Park.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Non-statutory arrangements

Important Bird Area

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.^[6]

References

^ "Search results for 'St Francis Island, Is' with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and localities', 'Counties', 'Hundreds', 'Local Government Areas', 'SA Government Regions' and 'Gazetteer'". Location SA Map Viewer. South Australian Government. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
^ "THE EARLY NAVIGATORS". Critic (Hobart, Tas. : 1907 - 1924). 1 May 1914. p. 6. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
^ "Wilderness Advisory Committee Annual Report 2012-13" (PDF). Annual Report: 18 & 23. September 2013. ISSN 1832-9357. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
^ Anon (2006). Island Parks of Western Eyre Peninsula Management Plan (PDF). Adelaide: Department for Environment and Heritage, South Australia. p. 2. ISBN 1-921238-18-6.
^ "NUYTS ARCHIPELAGO MARINE PARK MANAGEMENT PLAN 2012" (PDF). Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. p. 5. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
^ "IBA: Nuyts Archipelago". Birdata. Birds Australia. Retrieved 5 September 2011.

Islands of South Australia

West coast of Eyre Peninsula

Generally	Avoid Bay Islands Black Rocks Sudden Jerk Baird Bay Jones Unnamed Cap Eba Germein Greenly Liguanea Neptune Islands Nicolas Baudin Nuyts Reef Olive Pigface Price Purdie Rocky Island (north) Rocky Island (south) Sinclair Curta Rocks Whidbey Isles Four Hummocks Perforated Price Island Golden Williams
Investigator Group	Flinders Pearson Isles Pearson Dorothee Veteran Isles Topgallant Waldegrave Islands Ward Islands
Nuyts Archipelago	Blefescu Breakwater Evans Eyre Franklin Gliddon Reef Goat Isles of St Francis Dog Egg Fenelon Freeling Hart Masillon Smooth St Francis West Lacy Lounds Lilliput Purdie Islands St Peter

Spencer Gulf

Generally	Bicker Isles Bird Boston Curlew Entrance Gambier Islands Wedge Grantham Goose Green Lipson Louth Rabbit Shag Tumby Wardang Weeroona
Jussieu Peninsula coastline	Carcase Rock Donington Grindall Hopkins Lewis Little Owen Smith Taylor Thistle
Sir Joseph Banks Group	Blyth Boucaut Dalby Dangerous Reef Duffield English Hareby Kirkby Langton Lusby Marum Partney Reevesby Roxby Seal Rock Sibsey Spilsby Stickney Winceby
Pondalowie Bay	Royston Middle South

Investigator Strait

Althorpe Islands
- Althorpe
- Haystack
- Seal
Chinamans Hat

Kangaroo Island

Main article	Kangaroo Island
Nepean Bay	Beatrice Islets Busby Islet Pelican Lagoon Islets
West and south coasts	Casuarina Islets Douglas Rock Lipson Reef Nobby Islet North Rock Paisley Islet Pelorus Islet South West Rock Unnamed island (Hanson Bay) Young Rock

Gulf St Vincent

Backstairs Passage

The Pages

Encounter Bay and adjoining waters

Granite
Pullen
Seal
West
Wright

South east coast

Baudin Rocks
Penguin

Mainland

Artificial islands	Delfin
Murray River	List of Murray River islands Hindmarsh Pomanda

Category
Commons

v t e Australian places named by Dutch navigators, explorers and cartographers in the Age of Discovery¹
Australian continent / Australian mainland	Eendrachtsland Nova Hollandia / Nieuw Holland
Queensland	Coen River Staaten River (Staten Rivier) Gulf of Carpentaria Sweers Island
Northern Territory	Vanderlin Island (Cap Vanderlin) Groote Eylandt Arnhem Land (Arnhems Landt) Crocodile Islands (Cocodrils Eÿlandt) Van Diemen Gulf (Baÿa Van Diemen) Wessel Islands
Western Australia	Cape Leeuwin (Landt van de Leeuwin) Dirk Hartog Island Nuyts Land District (Land van Pieter Nuyts) Houtman Abrolhos² Pelsaert Group Pelsaert Island Rottnest Island ('t Eylandt 't Rottenest) Swan River (Swarte Swaene-Rivier)
South Australia	Nuyts Archipelago St Francis Island (Eyland St. Francois) St Peter Island (Eyland St. Pierre)
Tasmania	Van Diemen's Land / Anthonie van Diemenslandt (mainland Tasmania) De Witt Island Maatsuyker Island (Maetsuickers Eylandt) Pedra Branca² Storm Bay Maria Island (Maria's Eylandt) Schouten Island (Schoute Eylandt)
Related topics	European maritime exploration of Australia European land exploration of Australia Dutch mapping of Australasia Dutch mapping of the Australian continent Dutch mapping of the Australian mainland Dutch mapping of Nova Hollandia Dutch mapping of Tasmania Early modern Netherlandish cartography
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