The group and island is named by the captain of HMS Beagle, which was charting the area, after the commodore Francisco Pelsaert of the Dutch East India Company trading fleet whose ship, the "Batavia" got wrecked and sank at the Wallabi island group to the north.
The captain saw a wreck on the island, mistakenly assumed it was the Batavia and named it after Pelsaert.
[2][3] The island is a significant bird site.
[4][5][6] The island and the group contain the most southerly true coral reefs in the Indian Ocean.
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