Cap Island Conservation Park

South Australia, Australia · built 1991

Cap Island Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located about 7.5 kilometres (4.7 mi) offshore, west of Mount Misery, Eyre Peninsula. The park covers Cap Island's 8ha surface. The island consists of a granite base and a calcarenite mantle; its margins steeply over-hanging and eroded. Typical vegetation is a low nitre bush (Nitraria billardierei) shrubland. Cap Island Conservation Park was constituted by statute in 1972 to conserve a sea bird breeding area and Australian sea lion (Neophoca cinerea) and New Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri) haul-out areas. Cap Island also bears the alternative name of Gap Island and historically was also known as Rocky Island.

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