Eagle Island (Western Australia) Explained

Eagle Island is about from Eagle Bluff on the Peron Peninsula in Shark Bay World Heritage Site in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia.

It is a sand island with an area of about, and an elevation of .

The island's vegetation is a closed heath, of which the dominant plant species is Nitraria billardierei (nitre bush). Other plant species include Limonium salicorniaceum; Sporobulus virginicus; species of Calandrinia, Pelargonium, Poa and Selenothamnus; and an introduced species of Chenopodium. Silver gulls nest on the island, and a small number of pied cormorants roost there.

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