Quail Island (Victoria)

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
Islands of Western Port, Victoria
  • Barrallier Island
  • Chinaman Island
  • Churchill Island
  • Elizabeth Island
  • French Island
  • Joe Island
  • Long Island
  • Middle Spit
  • Pelican Island
  • Phillip Island
  • Quail Island
  • Ram Island
  • Reef Island
  • Sandstone Island
  • Schnapper Rock
  • Tortoise Head Bank


Famous quotes containing the words quail and/or island:

    “A little on the side—very little.”
    —A. Edward Sullivan, U.S. screenwriter. Professor Quail (W.C. Fields)

    “I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)