Ward Islands (South Australia)
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| Location | Great Australian Bight |
| Coordinates | 33°44′38″S 134°17′11″E / 33.74398°S 134.28627°ECoordinates: 33°44′38″S 134°17′11″E / 33.74398°S 134.28627°E |
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Ward Islands is an island group in the Australian state of South Australia located in the Investigator Group about 53 kilometres (33 mi) west by south of Cape Finniss on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula. The group was discovered and named by Matthew Flinders on 13 February 1802. The island group has enjoyed protected area status since the 1960s and since 2011, it been part of the Investigator Group Wilderness Protection Area.
Ward Islands is an island group located about 53 kilometres (33 mi) west by south of Cape Finniss on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, about 57 kilometres (35 mi) west by south of the town of Elliston and about 15 kilometres (8 nmi) west north-west of the south west point of Flinders Island.
The group consist of two islands: Ward Island (also known as the NE islet) and South Ward Island (also known as the SE Islet).
Ward Island covers an area of 20 hectares (49 acres). It rises above sea level with a coastline consisting of cliffs and scree slopes, all described as being ‘steep’, to a summit at 49 metres (161 ft) which has a relatively flat profile and ‘which carries a crust of soil and a few diminutive sand dunes’.
South Ward Island is described as ‘a hump of rock and soil’ which reaches a height of 28 metres (92 ft) above sea level and which is located about 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) to the south-east of Ward Island.
Access to Ward Island (and presumably to South Ward Island) is reported as being ‘complicated by the swell and the rocky coast’ to the extent that in one instance, ‘no safe boat landing sites could be found’. As a result, a survey carried in 1980 used a helicopter to land survey personnel on Ward Island.
The Ward Islands were formed about 9450 years ago following the rise of sea levels at the start of the Holocene.
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