Bernier Island

Bernier Island is one of three islands that comprise the "Bernier and Dorre Island Nature Reserve" in the Shark Bay World Heritage area in Western Australia. [Hancock, Sue; Brown, Paul; and Stephens, Burke. (2000). "Shark Bay Terrestrial Reserves Management Plan 2000-2009". Department of Conservation and Land Management, for the National Parks and Nature Conservation Authority, Perth, Western Australia. ISBN 0-7307-5510-X ]

It was a hospital location in the early 1900s. [ Hunter, Ernest M. (1993). "Aboriginal health and history: power and prejudice in remote Australia". Cambridge [England] ; Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521447607 (History of treating venereal diseases among aborigines in the Kimberley, removal to Dorre and Bernier Islands). Aboriginal health and history, p.58-61.] [Jebb, Mary Anne. (1984). "The Lock hospitals experiment: Europeans, aborigines and venereal disease". Studies in Western Australian History, No.8 (Dec. 1984), p.68-87.]

It is located at the north-western corner of the World Heritage area, almost due west of Carnarvon, Western Australia. The 2.6 ha Koks Island is offshore from the lighthouse at its northern end. It is separated from Dorre Island to its south by a 0.5 km gap with a depth of 4 m.

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