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  2. Phillip Island Nature Park - Wikipedia

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    Phillip Island Nature Park (PINP) is a conservation park located on Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia. Created in 1996, the park is owned by the Victorian State Government; however, it is a self-funding commercial attraction for the purpose of animal conservation and research. An oil spill off the island in January, 2000 led to a worldwide ...

  3. Phillip Island Important Bird Area - Wikipedia

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    The high public profile of the colony has assisted conservation efforts; as has its economic value as a tourist attraction. In 1987, more international visitors witness the penguins coming ashore at Phillip Island than visited Uluru. In the financial year 1985-86, 350,000 people saw the event, and at that time audience numbers were growing 12% ...

  4. Summerland Peninsula - Wikipedia

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    Little penguin burrow, early 1900s, Phillip Island Modification of Phillip Island and its Summerland Peninsula began after European Settlement in the 1830s and 1840s. In 1839 the entire island (approximately 10,000 hectares) was cleared by burning to make way for agriculture, by 1872 farmers had settled the peninsula cultivating chicory and ...

  5. Western Port - Wikipedia

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    Phillip Island Penguin Reserve has the largest colony of little penguins in Victoria as well as a major colony of short-tailed shearwaters, with breeding hooded plovers and peregrine falcons. Seal Rock off Phillip Island is home to the largest colony of Australian fur seals [11] and a breeding site of kelp gulls and sooty oystercatchers. San ...

  6. Phillip Island - Wikipedia

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    Phillip Island (Boonwurrung: Corriong, Worne or Millowl) [2] [3] is an Australian island about 125 km (78 mi) south-southeast of Melbourne, Victoria. The island is named after Governor Arthur Phillip , the first Governor of New South Wales , by explorer and seaman George Bass , who sailed in a whaleboat , arriving from Sydney on 5 January 1798.

  7. Summerlands, Victoria - Wikipedia

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    Summerlands is a locality and a former residential subdivision on Phillip Island in Victoria, Australia, located in the south-west corner of the island, close to a little penguin breeding colony. In 1985, the Victorian government decided that, to protect the penguin rookery, further development of the subdivision would be prohibited and all the ...

  8. Protected areas of Victoria - Wikipedia

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    Victoria is the smallest mainland state in Australia.As of 2022 it contained 5,081 separate protected areas with a total land area of 4,012,888 ha (9,916,060 acres) (17.64% of the state's area).

  9. Cape Woolamai, Victoria - Wikipedia

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    Cape Woolamai is a town and headland at the south eastern tip of Phillip Island in Victoria, Australia. It is home to Cape Woolamai State Faunal Reserve and the Phillip Island Airport . Cape Woolamai contains a subdivision also called Cape Woolamai (formerly known as Woolamai Waters and Woolamai Waters West ).

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