Reevesby Island
![Reevesby Island is located in South Australia](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Australia_South_Australia_location_map.svg/250px-Australia_South_Australia_location_map.svg.png)
![Reevesby Island](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Cercle_rouge_100%25.svg/20px-Cercle_rouge_100%25.svg.png)
Reevesby Island is a small, uninhabited island in the Sir Joseph Banks group of islands in southern Spencer Gulf, South Australia. Since 2018, a group of volunteers now known as the Friends of Reevesby Island have been restoring the old homestead on the island, which was inhabited until it became a conservation park in 1974. Author and local historian Eric Kotz is a member. The homestead is encircled by a low fence which was built to keep the island's resident Tiger snakes and Death adders away from the island's human inhabitants.[1] The island is one of the largest in the Sir Joseph Banks Conservation Park and is home to many unique species including greater stick-nest rats, hooded plovers, little penguins and Cape Barren geese.[2]
References
- ^ "Preserving 'rough' history on island paradise a game of snakes and death adders". ABC News. 2021-01-19. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
- ^ "Success stories". National Parks and Wildlife Service South Australia. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
34°31′34″S 136°16′49″E / 34.52611°S 136.28028°E / -34.52611; 136.28028