# Kent Group

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Group of islands in Tasmania, Australia

Kent Group Kent Group Kent Group Location of the Kent Group in Bass Strait Etymology William Kent Geography Location Bass Strait Coordinates 39°27′36″S 147°19′48″E / 39.46000°S 147.33000°E / -39.46000; 147.33000 Total islands 6 Major islands Deal Island Area 1,576 ha (3,890 acres)[1] Administration Australia State Tasmania

Kent Group map

The **Kent Group** are a grouping of six [granite](/source/Granite) [islands](/source/Island) located in [Bass Strait](/source/Bass_Strait), north-west of the [Furneaux Group](/source/Furneaux_Group) in Tasmania, Australia.[2] Collectively, the group is comprised within the [Kent Group National Park](/source/Kent_Group_National_Park).[1]

The islands were named Kent's Group by [Matthew Flinders](/source/Matthew_Flinders), "in honour of my friend captain [William Kent](/source/William_Kent_(Royal_Navy_officer)), then commander of [*Supply*](/source/HMAT_Supply_(1759))" when Flinders passed them on 8 February 1798 in *[Francis](/source/Francis_(1793))* (on her way to salvage *[Sydney Cove](/source/Sydney_Cove_(1796_ship))*).[3] The largest island in the group is [Deal Island](/source/Deal_Island_(Tasmania)); the others, in order of descending size, are [Erith Island](/source/Erith_Island_(Tasmania)), [Dover Island](/source/Dover_Island_(Tasmania)), [North East Isle](/source/North_East_Isle_(Tasmania)), [South West Isle](/source/South_West_Isle_(Tasmania)) and [Judgement Rocks](/source/Judgement_Rocks).

## History

[Seal hunting](/source/Seal_hunting) took place on the islands from at least 1803.[4]

## Shipwrecks

Murray Pass, named for the explorer [John Murray](/source/John_Murray_(Australian_explorer)), between Deal and Erith Islands has long been used by ships to shelter from gales in Bass Strait, but it is a dangerous, partly open, [roadstead](/source/Roadstead), and many ships have been wrecked after sudden changes in wind direction and speed. Others have hit the island either while attempting to shelter or through poor navigation in darkness or bad weather, several with heavy loss of life. They include:[5]

- 1816, *[Brothers](/source/The_Brothers_(ship))*, [schooner](/source/Schooner), 40 tons, Captain [William Hovell](/source/William_Hovell), one life lost.

- 1819, *[Daphne](/source/Daphne_(brig))*, [brig](/source/Brig), 151 tons, Captain John Howard, no lives lost.

- 1819, *[John Palmer](/source/John_Palmer_(1814_schooner))*, [schooner](/source/Schooner), 37 tons, Captain Bastian, two lives lost (one ex *Daphne*)

- 1831, *Ionia*, [snow](/source/Brig), 226 tons, Captain Buck. ?Three lives lost.

- 1850, *Ida*, schooner, 50 tons, no loss of life.

- 1851, *White Squall*, schooner, 104 tons, Captain Chattock, no loss of life.

- 1852, *[Dorset](/source/Dorset_(1838_ship))*, brig, 82 tons, Captain Birdwood, no loss of life.

- 1852, *Mary*, brig, 308 tons, no loss of life.

- 1855, *Elizabeth Mason*, schooner, 79 tons, Captain McIntyre, no loss of life.

- 1856, *Kendall*, schooner, 157 tons, Captain Read, no lives lost.

- 1862, *Reindeer*, schooner, 104 tons, Captain Morris, all hands (about 8) lost.

- 1863, *General Jessup*, [barque](/source/Barque), 193 tons, Captain Hodge, no loss of life.

- 1866, *Boscarne*, schooner, 63 tons, Captain Black, no loss of life.

- 1875, *Essie Black*, barque, 281 tons, Captain Sivier, all hands (about 10) lost.

- 1877, *Bulli*, iron [steamship](/source/Steamship), 524 tons, Captain Randell, no loss of life (a popular dive wreck).

- 1921, *Karitane*, steel steamship, 1376 tons, Captain Spain, no loss of life.

- 1930, *Ida N*, new fishing boat, 25 tons, Captain Busk, no lives lost.

- 1961, *St Nicholas*, newly completed fish carrier, 45 tons, no loss of life.

## See also

- [List of islands of Tasmania](/source/List_of_islands_of_Tasmania)

- [Protected areas of Tasmania](/source/Protected_areas_of_Tasmania)

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-kgnp_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-kgnp_1-1) ["Kent Group National Park"](https://web.archive.org/web/20060820105329/http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/natparks/kent/index.html). [Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service](/source/Tasmania_Parks_and_Wildlife_Service). Tasmanian Government. Archived from [the original](http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/natparks/kent/index.html) on 20 August 2006. Retrieved 30 June 2006.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Kent Group (TAS)"](https://www.ga.gov.au/place-name/PlaceDetails.jsp?submit1=TAS05356). *[Gazetteer of Australia](/source/Gazetteer_of_Australia) online*. [Geoscience Australia](/source/Geoscience_Australia), Australian Government.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-flinders_3-0)** [Flinders, Matthew](/source/Matthew_Flinders) (1814). [*A Voyage to Terra Australis: Undertaken for the Purpose of Completing the Discovery of that Vast Country, and Prosecuted in the Years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in His Majesty's Ship the Investigator*](https://archive.org/details/voyageTerraAustv1Flin/page/n8). Vol. 1. London: G. Nicol & Son. p. cxxiv. [Wikidata](/source/WDQ_(identifier)) [Q19027014](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19027014).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** *The Sydney Gazette*, 3 February 1803, p.2.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Broxam & Nash, *Tasmanian Shipwrecks*, Volumes 1 and 2, Navarine Publishing, Canberra, 1998 and 2000, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-9586561-5-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-9586561-5-0) and [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-9586561-6-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-9586561-6-9)

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