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Lady Musgrave Island is a coral cay on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, with a surrounding reef. The island is the second island in the Great Barrier Reef chain of islands (with the first being Lady Elliot Island), and is most easily reached from the town of 1770, Queensland, located on approximately 5 hours north of Brisbane. It is named for the wife of Sir Anthony Musgrave, a colonial governor of Queensland. Lady Musgrave Island, and the immediate surrounds, is a national park and can be reached by excursion boat from the Town of 1770. It is also part of the Capricornia Cays Important Bird Area. ==Geography== This island is the only shingle cay situated on the leeward reef flat.〔ATOLL RESEARCH BULLETIN NO. 195 () (PDF)〕 The island also has beach rock that is exposed along the north eastern and eastern beaches and an outcrop of lithified coral conglomerate, similar to that forming the core of the cay, occurs near the south eastern corner. Vegetation consists of ''Pisonia grandis,'' ''Tournefortia argentea,'' ''Casuarina equisetifolia,'' and ''Pandanus tectorius.'' The vegetation is less dense than that of the larger sand cays of the Capricorn Group. A small pond of brackish water is located towards the southern end of the cay. The island is located on the southern end of a large lagoon. From a boating perspective the great thing about Lady Musgrave reef is that you can enter the lagoon via a deep water channel. There has been some conjecture whether the channel into the lagoon is a naturally occurring phenomenon, or was cut into the lagoon by Japanese or Taiwanese fisherman, or as legend has it was widened by guano miners many years ago; it is recorded by 1938 and in 1966 surveys.〔Steers Detailed notes〕 More convincingly however, the channel is mentioned in William Collin's ''Life & Adventures of an Essexman: a Queensland pioneer'' and in a Brisbane newspaper reporting in December 1875 Collin's salvage of the ''Norseman''. It may have been widened by Captain Collin after he had re-floated the ''Norseman'' from Lady Musgrave Island reef and repaired damage to its hull; apparently Collin's crew had the vessel 'on the hard' on the sand cay to make these repairs. He may have widened the narrow, naturally-occurring 'gap' in the reef to get the repaired vessel out of the lagoon, under tow and without further mishap. 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「Lady Musgrave Island」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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