Great Glennie Island Explained

Great Glennie Island
Etymology:	George Glennie, by James Grant in (1800)
Map:	Australia Victoria South Gippsland Shire
Location:	Bass Strait
Coordinates:	-39.085°N 146.2311°W
Area Ha:	138
Length Km:	3
Width Km:	0.6
Elevation M:	140
Country:	Australia
Country Admin Divisions Title:	State
Country Admin Divisions:	Victoria

Great Glennie Island is a small, rugged, granite island in the Glennie group of islands off the west coast of Wilsons Promontory, Victoria, Australia.^[1] It is part of the Wilsons Promontory Islands Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance for breeding seabirds.^[2]

The island was sighted by Lieutenant James Grant, in, on 10 December 1800 and named "after Mr. George Glennie, a particular friend of Captain Schank’s, to whom I was under personal obligations".^{[3] [4]}

External links

• Parks Victoria - Wilsons Promontory Marine National Park

Notes and References

1. Harris . M. P. . Brown . R. S. . Wainer. J . Seabird Islands No 94, Great Glennie Island, Glennie Group, Victoria . Corella . 4 . 4 . 93–95 . November 1980 .
2. Web site: IBA: Wilsons Promontory Islands . 2011-11-29 . Birdata . Birds Australia . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110706102341/http://www.birdata.com.au/iba.vm . 2011-07-06 .
3. Book: Eccleston, Gregory C. . The Early Charting of Victoria's Coastline . Australian and New Zealand Map Society . 2012 . 23 .
4. Book: Grant, James. James Grant (navigator)

   . James Grant (navigator) . The narrative of a voyage of discovery, performed in His Majesty's vessel the Lady Nelson, of sixty tons burthen: with sliding keels, in the years 1800, 1801, and 1802, to New South Wales . 1803 . 79 . Printed by C. Roworth for T. Egerton.