Islands
There are over 50 islands in Bass Strait. Major islands include:
Western section:
- King Island
- Three Hummock Island
- Hunter Island
- Robbins Island
South eastern section:
- Furneaux Group
- Flinders Island (where the surviving Aboriginal Tasmanians were exiled)
- Cape Barren Island
- Clarke Island
- and several other islands
North eastern section:
- Kent Group
- Deal Island
- and 3 smaller islands
- Hogan Island
- Curtis Island
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Famous quotes containing the word islands:
“Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not let a couple of Irishmen have a private sparring- match on one of them, as it is a government monopoly; all the great seaports are in a boxing attitude, and you must sail prudently between two tiers of stony knuckles before you come to feel the warmth of their breasts.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)