Cape Barren Island is located off the north east coast of Tasmania, Australia, and is one of the islands of the Furneaux Group in Bass Strait. The largest island of the group, Flinders Island, lies to the north, with the smaller Clarke Island to the south. Population of the island is approximately 80 persons. The highest point on the island is Mount Munro at 687 metres. Motto: Ubertas et Fidelitas (Fertility and Faithfulness) Nickname: The Apple Isle Other Australian states and territories Capital Hobart Government Governor Premier Const. ... The Furneaux Group is a group of 52 islands, at the eastern end Bass Strait, between Victoria and Tasmania, Australia. ... Bass Strait is a sea strait separating Australian mainland (Victoria in particular). ... Municipality of Flinders, Tasmania Flinders Island is an island in the Bass Strait, located 20 km from the north-eastern tip of Tasmania, Australia. ... Mount Munro is the highest point on Australias Cape Barren Island at 687 metres. ...
Australia's only native goose, the Cape Barren Goose, was first sighted on this island.
Most of the residents were descended from European whalers who kidnapped Aboriginal women on the Tasmanian mainland and they settled on Cape Barren Island. During the Stolen Generation policy of the Australian Federal Government, children of the islanders were taken away from their parents in order that their 'blackness' be taught out of them.
On 10 May 2005, the Commonwealth lands on Cape Barren and Clarke Islands were handed over to be overseen by the local Aboriginal association. This marked the first official handover of government land back to the original inhabitants of the state of Tasmania.
The island can be reached by taking a flight from either Melbourne, Victoria or Launceston, Tasmania to Flinders Island. From whence, the island is but a short boat trip or plane trip away. Cape Barren, with the other islands in the Furneaux group, are a popular destination for sea kayakers who try to cross the Bass Strait from the Australian mainland to the Tasmanian mainland. The group used to form the landbridge that linked these two mainlands together.
CapeBarrenIsland is located off the north east coast of Tasmania, Australia, and is one of the islands of the Furneaux Group in Bass Strait.
The largest island of the group, Flinders Island, lies to the north, with the smaller Clarke Island to the south.
CapeBarren, with the other islands in the Furneaux group, are a popular destination for sea kayakers who try to cross the Bass Strait from the Australian mainland to the Tasmanian mainland.
The island measures 10,311 square kilometres in area (3,981 square miles), making it the 75th largest island in the world, and is composed mainly of rocky shores, rolling farmland, glacial valleys, barren headlands, mountains, forests and plateaus.
Cape Breton's landscape is dominated by the Bras d'Or Lake system, which the island wraps around, the Strait of Canso, and the Cape Breton Highlands, which are considered a continuation of the Appalachian chain.
Cape Breton is now joined to the mainland by the Canso Causeway, completed in 1955, enabling direct road and rail traffic to and from the island, but constraining marine traffic to pass through the Canso Canal at the eastern end of the causeway.
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