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Michaelmas Cay - Print by David Stacey - $30 (HERNDON)
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Print size: 620mm x 820mm/ 24inches x 32inches
Framed, double matted, ready to hang
Michaelmas Cay is a small, vegetated sand cay:
Located on the western tip of Michaelmas Reef 43km north-east of Cairns and 17km north of Green Island.
The vegetated coral reef island covers an area of 1.8 hectares and rises to a height of 3.5m above sea level.
Around 360m long x 50m wide.
For a period during the late 1800s and early 1900s the island was used by sea cucumber pickers (Beche-de-mer) and for guano mining. In 1937 it was declared a fauna sanctuary and formally a national park in 1975.