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13-908: Bird Island or Bird Islands may refer to: Africa [ edit ] Bird Island (Namibia) Bird Island, Seychelles Bird Island Airport Bird Island, Algoa Bay , South Africa Bird Island Nature Reserve (South Africa) Europe [ edit ] Bird Island, County Down , a townland in Northern Ireland , UK Bird Island, Slovakia North and Central America [ edit ] United States [ edit ] Bird Island (Kitnamax) , Aleutian Islands , Alaska Bird Island (Juneau, Alaska) Bird Island, Lake Louise, Alaska Bird Island, Brooks Island Regional Preserve , California Bird Island (Marin County, California) Bird Island (San Mateo County, California) Bird Island,

26-501: A fictional island in the Angry Birds films See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with Bird Island All pages with titles containing Bird Island Bird Key and Bird Key (Miami) , islands in Florida, U.S. Bird Rock (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

39-556: A former island in Tulare Lake , California Bird Island (Pearl and Hermes Atoll) , Hawaii Bird Island, or Moku Manu , Hawaii Bird Island, or Nihoa , Hawaii Bird Island (Massachusetts) Bird Island, Minnesota Bird Island Township, Renville County, Minnesota Bird Island (Montana) , an island in Montana Bird Island, North Carolina Bird Island, Harris Beach State Park , Oregon Bird Island, Utah ,

52-534: A small island in Utah Lake, Utah Elsewhere [ edit ] Bird Island (Belize) Bird Island, Bermuda Bird Islands (Nunavut) , Canada Isla de Aves (Spanish, 'Island of Birds'), a Caribbean dependency of Venezuela Oceania [ edit ] Australia [ edit ] Bird Island Nature Reserve , New South Wales, Australia Bird Islands (Queensland) , Australia Bird Island, Whitsunday Islands , Queensland, Australia Bird Island in

65-490: A wooden platform measuring four meters square, standing three meters above the sea surface. Winter finished this initial construction in March 1930. One year later he had enlarged the platform to 16 meters square, and by August 1931 had extended it to 1600 square meters. Guano was collected and sold annually, and expansion of the platform continued at a slower pace until 1937, when a large shipment of timber allowed further expansion of

78-596: Is Kalumburu , the northernmost settlement in Western Australia. The islands are several hundred kilometers north-east of Broome . The western island at 14°05′02″S 125°42′47″E  /  14.083929°S 125.713183°E  / -14.083929; 125.713183  ( Bird Island ) is one of about 3 dozen islands around the mouth of the Admiralty Gulf which include the Montesquieu group of islands,

91-579: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bird Island (Western Australia) Bird Island is the name of three islands in Western Australia . Two are in the Kimberley region, and the third is off the coast of Rockingham , about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) south of Garden Island (Western Australia) . The southernmost of the islands is about 150–200 m (490–660 ft) long (east to west) and up to 100 m (330 ft) wide, and

104-502: Is at 32°16′39″S 115°41′25″E  /  32.277514°S 115.690257°E  / -32.277514; 115.690257  ( Bird Island ) about 500 m (1,600 ft) off the southern coast of Cape Peron . Nearby islands to the south are Seal Island and Penguin Island , and as mentioned, Garden Island to the north. The northern pair of islands are about 60 km (37 mi) east-west of each other. The nearest settlement

117-1026: The Port River estuary north of Adelaide, South Australia Bird Islands Conservation Park , Spencer Gulf, South Australia, Australia Bird Island (Tasmania) , Australia Bird Island (Prime Seal Group) , Tasmania, Australia Bird Island (Western Australia) , the name of three islands New Zealand [ edit ] Bird Island (Southland) Bird Island (Otago) Bird Island (Tasman Region) Bird Island (Marlborough) Bird Island (North Island) Elsewhere [ edit ] Bird Island, or Nihoa , Hawaii, United States Bird Island, Palmyra Atoll , Line Islands Elsewhere [ edit ] Bird Island, Falkland Islands Bird Island, South Georgia Bird Islands, Qinghai Lake , China Tori-shima (Izu Islands) , (Japanese, 'Bird Island'), Japan Kuşadası , (Turkish, 'Bird Island'), Turkey Kuş Island , Turkey Other uses [ edit ] Bird Island (radio series) Bird Island,

130-531: The Kingsmill Islands and the Low Rocks and Sterna Island Important Bird Area . The island is roughly circular, about 60 m (200 ft) in diameter. The eastern island at 14°00′51″S 126°34′05″E  /  14.014181°S 126.56817°E  / -14.014181; 126.56817  ( Bird Island ) is approximately T-shaped, the two axes being about 150–200 m (490–660 ft) long. It

143-614: The platform to its current size of 17,000 square meters. The guano collected from Bird Island is considered high quality for its high nitrogen content relative to other guano collection facilities in the region. It is cleaned in Swakopmund to remove feathers and other debris, ground to a powder, and exported to Belgium for US$ 285 per ton. The platform yields approximately 650 tons of guano annually. 22°52′43″S 14°32′09″E  /  22.8786°S 14.5357°E  / -22.8786; 14.5357 This Namibia location article

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156-513: The title Bird Island . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bird_Island&oldid=1234239977 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Bird Island (Namibia) Bird Island

169-399: Was conceived and constructed by Adolf Winter, a German who emigrated to South West Africa (now known as Namibia) in 1912. Winter took a train from Swakopmund to nearby Walvis Bay and saw a natural offshore formation called Bird Rock, covered in guano from many birds. On the return trip, he noticed the guano had been washed away by the sea and saw a business opportunity. Bird Island began as

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