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The Rottnest Quiz ANSWERS:

1. (1) Fay’s Bay, (2) Parakeet Bay, (3) Little Armstrong Bay (allow Armstrong) (4) Catherine Bay, (5) Stark Bay, (6) Rocky Bay, (7) Marjorie Bay, (8) Eagle Bay, (9) Wilson Bay, (10) Strickland Bay, (11) Little Salmon Bay, (12) Bickley Bay.

2.  (A) Government House Lake (B) Garden Lake (C) Herschel Lake (D) Lake Baghdad (E) Lake Vincent (F) Pink Lake (G) Lake Serpentine.

3.  James Stark (Jr. actually)  

4.  Army sergeant maintaining Kingston Barracks facilities.

5.  Alan Ward

6.  Buffalo bream grazing behaviour

7.  Sea spurge

8. Rottnest ti tree (Melaleuca lanceolata) and Rottnest Island pine (Callitris preissii)

9.  9.2 inch

10.  Zephyr

11.  1962

12.  1899

13.  1976

14.  Des Sullivan

15.  1696

16.  Wedge-tailed shearwaters

17.  Banded stilt

18.  Tree martin

19.  Dusky morwong

20.  None – they are all endemic

21.  Strickland Bay

22.  Dyer’s Island

23.  Denton Holme, Macedon, Janet, Gem

24.  Barker’s Swamp, Lighthouse Swamp, Salmon Swamp

25.  Desalination

26. The underground aquifer west of the main lighthouse

27.  The rainwater catchments

28.  Brian Easton

29.  Anitra

30.  The Parmelia Race

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