Easter Group
The Easter Group is the central of three groups of islands that make up the Houtman Abrolhos island chain. Nominally located at, it is about 20 kilometres by 12 kilometres, and consists of a number of islands including
The group was discovered and named in April 1840 by the crew of HMS Beagle, under the command of John Clements Wickham. Stoke's journal, published as Discoveries in Australia in 1846, records the following for April 11:
