Champagny Island

Champagny
	Champagny
Geography
Coordinates	15°18′03″S 124°15′29″E / 15.30078376°S 124.2581349°ECoordinates: 15°18′03″S 124°15′29″E / 15.30078376°S 124.2581349°E
Total islands	1
Area	1,337 ha (3,300 acres)
Administration
	Australia
Demographics
Population	0

Champagny Island is an island off the coast of the Kimberley region in Western Australia.

Located on the western side of Camden Sound and part of the Champagny Islands group within the Bonaparte Archipelago, the island encompasses an area of 1,337 hectares (3,304 acres).^[1]

The traditional owners of the area are the Dambimangari peoples of the Worrorran languages group whose name for the island is Nimenba.^[2]

The island was named by Nicholas Baudin in 1801 after the French diplomat and statesman, Jean-Baptiste de Nompère de Champagny, 1st duc de Cadore.^[1]

Birds found on the island include the brown quail, eastern reef egret, brown falcon, whimbrel, beach stone-curlew, sooty oystercatcher, bar-shouldered dove, Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo, rainbow bee-eater and the red-capped plover.^[1]

References

1 2 3 "Status Performance Assessment: Biodiversity conservation of Western Australian Islands" (PDF). Government of Western Australia. 1 April 2010. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
↑ T. Vigilante; et al. (2013). "Biodiversity values on selected Kimberley Islands, Australia" (PDF). Western Australian Museum. Retrieved 17 August 2014.

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[SPA-1] 1 2 3 "Status Performance Assessment: Biodiversity conservation of Western Australian Islands" (PDF). Government of Western Australia. 1 April 2010. Retrieved 17 August 2014.

[2] T. Vigilante; et al. (2013). "Biodiversity values on selected Kimberley Islands, Australia" (PDF). Western Australian Museum. Retrieved 17 August 2014.