Wallabi Group


The Wallabi Group is the northern-most group of islands in the Houtman Abrolhos. Nominally located at, it is from the Australian mainland, and about from the Easter Group.
The group consists of a number of islands arising from a carbonate platform long and up to wide, and also the outlying North Island, located to the northwest of the main platform. The main islands are North Island, West Wallabi Island, East Wallabi Island, Long Island and Beacon Island. The group is part of the Houtman Abrolhos Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance for supporting large numbers of breeding seabirds.
The Wallabi Group is best known for the shipwreck of the Batavia on Morning Reef near Beacon Island in 1629, and the subsequent mutiny and that took place among the marooned survivors. Another wreck for which the location is known is the Hadda, which was wrecked off Beacon Island in April 1877 and now lies about a kilometre north of it.

Components of the island group