Faure Island

It lies in line with the Monkey Mia resort to the west, and the Wooramel River on the eastern shore of Shark Bay.

The island was given its European name by French explorer Nicolas Baudin in 1801, in honour of the geographer, Pierre Faure, aboard his ship Le Naturaliste.

The Faure and Pelican Islands (Shark Bay) IBA supports breeding colonies of fairy terns and over 1% of the world populations of red-necked stint and pied oystercatcher.

[6] The original native mammal fauna of Faure Island did not survive the introduction of livestock and the presence of feral cats.

[7] However, sub-fossil evidence of the former presence of native mammals has brought reintroduction of the boodie, Shark Bay mouse, banded hare-wallaby and western barred bandicoot.