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21. Corner Island

  1. Sites of Geological and Geomorphological Significance - Site C21 - Corner Island

This information has been developed from the publication:
  • Sites of Geological and Geomorphological Significance in the South Gippsland Marine and Coastal Parks (1989) Neville Rosengren.
    Geological heritage sites, including sites of geomorphological interest and volcanic heritage sites, are under regular revision by the Geological Society of Australia, especially in the assessment of significance and values. Reference should be made to the most recent reports. See the     Earth Science Heritage (external link) section of the Geological Society of Australia website for details of geological heritage reports, and a bibliography.

Location960408. Two and a half km north of Millers Landing.

Access:
Boat access only at high tide.

Significant Features:
Corner Island is a battered looking island with a diminishing mangrove fringe and eroding salt marsh. For a small island, there is complex topography with eroding salt marsh peat cliffs leaving a clayey shore platform as they retreat, a tidal creek system, several large ponds in the salt marsh and a coarse shell bank north of the island which is providing material for cheniers being driven onto the northern shore.

Significance Level:
Regional. This is an illustration of the rapid change that can occur on an exposed marsh island. The island is the subject of an on-going mapping programme to determine physiographic and ecological change (Vanderzee in prep.).

Management Issues:
No action is required at the site.

Research & Monitoring Requirements:
Continuation of the established monitoring programme.

Public Interpretation Possibilities:
Not applicable. The island is too sensitive to used as a public site.

Main References:
Vertical aerial photographs.

Sites of Geological & Geomorphological Significance - Figure 50
Site 21, Corner Island
Image: Marine and Coastal Parks Sites of Significance
Eroded western shore of Corner Island

Image: Marine and Coastal Parks Sites of Significance
Pond in salt marsh, Corner Island

Image: Marine and Coastal Parks Sites of Significance
Shelly chenier driven onto Corner Island
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