Lively Island
| Lively Island | |
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| Location: | 52°1’46"S, 58°28’1"W |
| Area: | 21½ square miles |
| Highest point: | 121 feet |
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Lively Island is the largest of the Lively Island Group of the Falkland Islands. The island group lies east of East Falkland. Lively Island is the largest rat-free island in the Falklands, hence its importance to birdlife. The island also has a sheep farm.
In the late 19th and early 20th Century, the island was own by George Cobb. It was sold after the First World War to pay taxes.
In the Falklands War the Battle of Seal Cove took place near Lively Island. Seal Cove is a bay in East Falkland directly to the west of the island.
Alexander Jaffray is the current owner.
Geography
Lively Island has an area of 13,800 acres. Its highest point is only 121 feet above sea level.
There are several streams and ponds, the largest of which is Enderby Pond, 17 acres, an important waterfowl site. Lively is rat-free but with a century and a half of grazing little tussoc remains and there are many large patches of eroded ground.[1]
Lively Island is surrounded by other, smaller islands and islets in the Lively Island group. Some of these Islets are linked to Lively Island by sandbars.[1] North East Island which is just 380 yards off the coast of Lively, was the site of a rat eradication programme in 2003. The rest of the Lively Islands are rat free.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 PART II: Falkland Islands Important Bird Areas - Lively Island Group; source uses metric measures
- Stonehouse, B (ed.) Encyclopedia of Antarctica and the Southern Oceans (2002, ISBN 0-471-98665-8)