Search
Menu
Home
Sources
About
Contacts
Anser Island
Anser Island
lies
off the southern
tip
of
Wilsons Promontory
in
Victoria, Australia
.
The island
is within
Wilsons Promontory National Park
. The
surrounding
waters
to the mean
high-water mark
are within
Wilsons Promontory Marine National Park
.
It is part of the
Wilsons Promontory Islands Important Bird Area
, identified as such by
BirdLife International
because of its importance for
breeding
seabirds
.
The island was named by
Lieutenant
H. J. Stanley, who surveyed the
islands
west
and south of
Wilsons
Promontory in
1868
, probably after the
Cape Barren goose
.