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Ward Islands is an island group located in the Investigator Group about west by south of Cape Finniss on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. 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. ==Description== Ward Islands is an island group located about west by south of Cape Finniss on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, about west by south of the town of Elliston and about west north-west of the south west point of Flinders Island.〔DMH, 1985, chart 38〕〔〔 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 . It rises above sea level with a coastline consisting of cliffs and scree slopes, all described as being ‘steep’, to a summit at 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 above sea level and which is located about 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.〔Robinson et al, 1996, page 382〕 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「Ward Islands (South Australia)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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