Qualla: Waldegrave Islands https://qualla.com/waldegrave-islands en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/p/b/waldegrave-islands-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Waldegrave Islands https://qualla.com/waldegrave-islands Waldegrave Islands: Introduction https://qualla.com/waldegrave-islands/ Photo credit Diceman~commonswiki, Public domain. Six thousand years ago, you could have walked here. Then the ice-age oceans rose, drowned the bridging isthmus of an older, larger Cape Finniss, and left two hilltops marooned in the Great Australian Bight. The remains of that land bridge still lie underwater, a submerged reef linking Waldegrave Island back to the mainland it used to belong to. Today the islands sit about 2.5 kilometres off Cape Finniss and 8.5 kilometres from the fishing town of Elliston, low and steep-sided, ringed by cold clear water and visited mostly by things with wings and flippers.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/p/b/waldegrave-islands-wp/qfpb-waldegrave-islands-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Waldegrave Islands: Two Hills the Sea Forgot to Take https://qualla.com/waldegrave-islands/ Photo credit Diceman~commonswiki, Public domain. There are really two islands here, plus a pair of rocks some charts call the Watchers. Waldegrave Island is the larger; Little Waldegrave lies about a kilometre to its west, a flat-topped table roughly a kilometre long and 32 hectares in area, its sides dropping abruptly to the s...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/p/b/waldegrave-islands-wp/qfpb-waldegrave-islands-two-hills-the-sea-forgot-to-take.mp3 0:06 2 full Waldegrave Islands: A Nursery Under Guard https://qualla.com/waldegrave-islands/ Photo credit Diceman~commonswiki, Public domain. Little Waldegrave is a maternity ward. On its ledges, Australian sea lions haul out and pup, part of a colony numbered at 38 animals near the end of the last century. These are among the rarest sea lions on Earth, an endangered species found only along the southern and western co...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/p/b/waldegrave-islands-wp/qfpb-waldegrave-islands-a-nursery-under-guard.mp3 0:06 3 full Waldegrave Islands: The Man the Islands Were Named For https://qualla.com/waldegrave-islands/ Photo credit Diceman~commonswiki, Public domain. On Wednesday, 10 February 1802, Matthew Flinders sailed past in HMS Investigator, charting a coastline no European had mapped, and named the group after William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, a naval officer who had fought at the Battle of St Vincent five years earlier. Flinders...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/p/b/waldegrave-islands-wp/qfpb-waldegrave-islands-the-man-the-islands-were-named-for.mp3 0:06 4 full Waldegrave Islands: Protected, and Better For It https://qualla.com/waldegrave-islands/ Photo credit Diceman~commonswiki, Public domain. Since 1972 the islands have formed the Waldegrave Islands Conservation Park, set aside specifically to protect Cape Barren goose breeding habitat and sea lion haul-out areas. The geese don't stay put; in summer the flock spreads inland to the Elliston district, feeding in the swa...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/p/b/waldegrave-islands-wp/qfpb-waldegrave-islands-protected-and-better-for-it.mp3 0:06 5 full Waldegrave Islands: A Link in a Greater Chain https://qualla.com/waldegrave-islands/ Photo credit Diceman~commonswiki, Public domain. The Waldegraves do not stand alone. They belong to the Investigator Group, the scatter of islands Flinders charted along this coast, and they fall within the Investigator Islands Important Bird Area, a designation that recognises the whole archipelago as critical breeding habitat...

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