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Green Island is an island in Oyster Harbour located approximately northeast of Albany in Western Australia. The island has a total area of and was designated as a Class 1A Nature Reserve in 1988.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Terrestrial Protected Areas of WA )〕 The nearest point on the mainland, Bayonet Head, is located approximately North West of the island. == History == Green Island was named by George Vancouver, who also named Oyster Harbour when he visited the area in 1791. It is one of only four permanent pelican breeding grounds in Western Australia, the others being Mandura, Shark Bay and Rockingham. The breeding pelicans can be seen from the Kalgan Queen Riverboat, as the Island itself is a reserve.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2008-04-23 )〕 When the colony in Albany was first settled in 1826, Green Island was planted for vegetables. By 1830 it supported a vegetable garden, and a hut was erected on the island for the gardener to live in.〔(【引用サイトリンク】year=2004 ) 〕 In 1827 a group of sealers took 5 Aborigines to Green Island to catch birds. The sealers rowed away, leaving the Aborigines behind, then returned the next day bringing water. The Aborigines attempted to take the boat, and the sealers fired on them killing one Aboriginal man.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SIOE 2002: Albany & SE Western Australia; Major Edmund Lockyer's "...complete Set of Pirates" )〕 The remaining Aborigines were removed to Michaelmas Island and left there making "great lamentations".〔 In 1991 the government department Fisheries Western Australia granted a fish farm license to the company Ocean Foods who have leases North and North East of Green Island where blue mussels are farmed".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rivercare.southcoastwa.org.au/resources/awrb/c7.3.html )〕 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「Green Island (Western Australia)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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