Talk:West Island (South Australia)

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Location of West Island in respect to Encounter Bay[edit]

Hi everyone, For some time, I have been looking for information about the maritime boundaries that apply in South Australia, in particular, the sea-ward limits of the Gulf St Vincent, Spencer Gulf, Investigator Strait and Backstairs Passage. In late July 2014, I found a proclamation made under the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973 in 2006 that describes the extent of the following four bays - Anxious Bay, Encounter Bay, Lacepede Bay and Rivoli Bay - please refer Explanatory Statement Seas and Submerged Lands (Historic Bays) Proclamation 2006. The proclamation itself (please refer Proclamation 2006) contains coordinates for the sea-ward limits for the four above-mentioned bays which I was able to plot onto charts. Of immediate interest, is Encounter Bay whose most westerly point of the sea-ward limit is the south tip of Rosetta Head (aka The Bluff) with the most easterly point being a point on the Younghusband Peninsula. This means that West Island ceased to be in Encounter Bay as of 15 February 2006 according to Australian authorities (including South Australia). Accordingly, I have edited both the Encounter Bay article and this article to reflect this situation. Trust the above explanation is satisfactory. Regards Cowdy001 (talk) 07:10, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That's fine. So you're saying that the "location" (which is the "sea" according to the docs at {{Infobox islands}}) is unknown? (That is, we don't have a source identifying it.) You might consider adding an html comment to the location entry referring to talk. Johnuniq (talk) 08:05, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Johnuniq, I have added Great Australian Bight on the basis of the definition used by the International Hydrographic Organization, i.e. pages 35 & 36 of 'Limits of Oceans and Seas'. Regards Cowdy001 (talk) 23:12, 11 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]