Grindal Island

Grindal Island
Geography
Grindal Island
Location	Spencer Gulf
Administration
Australia

Lifeboat "City of Adelaide" at Grindal Island, South Australia c. 1950. State Library of South Australia B29793.

Grindal Island (also referred to as Garden Island) is a 90 ha island of the Taylor Islands Group, located between the Jussieu Peninsula and Thistle Island near the mouth of Spencer Gulf, South Australia. It was purchased by G. Dorwald in 1895.^[1] It has been used for the grazing of sheep. According to Captain R.R. Tapley of the Martindale, in the 1890s the island was home to hundreds of Cape Barren geese. 'Buggy wheel tracks' were also visible, which he learnt were actually rat pads. In 1936 he reflected on his experiences 40 years prior, stating: 'The rats suddenly disappeared, and have not been seen since. They used to run over everything and everybody at night.'^[2]

References

↑ "Land sales." South Australian Register, South Australia (1895-06-14). Retrieved 2014-01-29.
↑ "Out among the people - Where did the rats come from?" Chronicle, South Australia (1936-01-30). Retrieved 2014-01-29.

Islands of South Australia

West coast of Eyre Peninsula

Generally	Avoid Bay Islands Black Rocks Sudden Jerk Baird Bay Jones Unnamed Cap Eba Germein Greenly Liguanea Neptune Islands Nicolas Baudin Nuyts Reef Olive Pigface Price Purdie Rocky Island (north) Rocky Island (south) Sinclair Sleaford Islands (Curta Rocks) Whidbey Isles Four Hummocks Perforated Price Island Golden Williams

Investigator Group	Flinders Pearson Isles Pearson Dorothee Veteran Isles Topgallant Waldegrave Islands Ward Islands

Nuyts Archipelago	Blefescu Breakwater Evans Eyre Franklin Gliddon Reef Goat Isles of St Francis Dog Egg Fenelon Freeling Hart Masillon Smooth St Francis West Lacy Lounds Lilliput Purdie Islands St Peter

Spencer Gulf

Generally	Bicker Isles Bird Boston Curlew Entrance Gambier Islands Wedge Grantham Goose Green Lipson Louth Rabbit Shag Tumby Wardang Weeroona

Jussieu Peninsula coastline	Carcase Rock Donington Grindall Hopkins Lewis Little Owen Smith Taylor Thistle

Sir Joseph Banks Group	Blyth Boucaut Dalby Dangerous Reef Duffield English Hareby Kirkby Langton Lusby Marum Partney Reevesby Roxby Seal Rock Sibsey Spilsby Stickney Winceby

Pondalowie Bay	Royston Middle South

Investigator Strait

Kangaroo Island

Main article	Kangaroo Island

Nepean Bay	Beatrice Islets Busby Islet Pelican Lagoon Islets

West and south coasts	Casuarina Islets Douglas Rock Lipson Reef Nobby Islet North Rock Paisley Islet Pelorus Islet South West Rock Unnamed island (Hanson Bay) Young Rock

Gulf St Vincent

Backstairs Passage

The Pages

Encounter Bay and adjoining waters

South east coast

Mainland

Artificial islands	Delfin

Murray River	List of Murray River islands Hindmarsh Pomanda

Category
Commons

Coordinates: 34°55′S 136°02′E / 34.917°S 136.033°E / -34.917; 136.033

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