Quail Island is the third largest island in Western Port (after Phillip Island and French Island). It is uninhabited, the entirety of it being gazetted as Quail Island Nature Conservation Reserve. It is offshore from Warneet and can be accessed by boat. There are two seasonal dams located in the centre. The southern brown bandicoot has been found on the island.
- Quail Island (Victoria) is at coordinates 38°13′59″S 145°16′59″E / 38.233°S 145.283°E / -38.233; 145.283Coordinates: 38°13′59″S 145°16′59″E / 38.233°S 145.283°E / -38.233; 145.283
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“We crossed a deep and wide bay which makes eastward north of Kineo, leaving an island on our left, and keeping to the eastern side of the lake. This way or that led to some Tomhegan or Socatarian stream, up which the Indian had hunted, and whither I longed to go. The last name, however, had a bogus sound, too much like sectarian for me, as if a missionary had tampered with it; but I knew that the Indians were very liberal. I think I should have inclined to the Tomhegan first.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)