Bernier Island

Bernier Island
Geography
LocationShark Bay
Administration
Australia
StateWestern Australia
RegionGascoyne

Bernier Island is one of three islands that comprise the Bernier and Dorre Island Nature Reserve in the Shark Bay World Heritage area in Western Australia.[1]

The island and the neighbouring Dorre Island were locations for a lock hospital in the early 1900s.[2]: 58–61 [3]

  1. ^ Hancock, Sue; Brown, Paul; Stephens, Burke (2000). Shark Bay Terrestrial Reserves Management Plan 2000-2009 (PDF) (Report). Perth, Western Australia: Department of Conservation and Land Management, for the National Parks and Nature Conservation Authority. ISBN 0-7307-5510-X. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  2. ^ Hunter, Ernest M. (1993). Aboriginal health and history: power and prejudice in remote Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-44760-7. OCLC 26502181.
  3. ^ Jebb, Mary Anne (1984). "The Lock hospitals experiment". Studies in Western Australian History (8, December 1984). Crawley: University of Western Australia: 68–87. ISSN 0314-7525. OCLC 5290386. Wikidata Q15749695.

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