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| archipelago = | area_km2 = 202 | length_km = 27 | width_km = 11.5 | coastline_km = 72 | highest mount = | elevation_m = | country = Australia | country admin divisions title = State | country admin divisions = Western Australia | population = | population as of = | additional info = }} Barrow Island is a island northwest off the Pilbara coast of Western Australia. The island is the second largest in Western Australia after Dirk Hartog Island. ==Discovery and early history== Navigators had noted its existence since the early 17th century, and Nicholas Baudin sighted it in 1803, mistakenly believing it to be part of mainland Australia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Barrow Island )〕 Phillip Parker King named the island in 1816 after Sir John Barrow, a Secretary of the Admiralty and founder of the Royal Geographical Society. The island was visited by indigenous Australians before and after its separation from the mainland, approximately 8000 years ago. Stone artefacts including several weathered flakes and fragments made of igneous and metamorphic rocks and chert were collected from Barrow Island in the 1960s.〔 Thevenard Island also has evidence of Aboriginal visitation,〔 and it is likely that the nearby Montebello Islands were utilized as well, however there have been no archaeological finds from these islands. Whalers were known to operate in the area from about 1800 onwards. The first recorded visit by whalers was in 1842 with continued visits occurring until 1864. The island was used as a slave trading centre for Aborigines during the 1870s by Captain William Cadell until he was arrested and removed from the colony in 1876. Slave labour was used in the nearby mainland pearling industry.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Morowa Historical Society - Ghosttowns of Western Australia )〕 Guano was found on the island and mining began in 1883. It was mined for the remainder of the 1880s and sold to markets in Perth.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The West Australian )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barrow Island (Western Australia)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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