{"id":103817,"date":"2026-05-17T13:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T08:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=103817"},"modified":"2026-05-18T17:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:33:59","slug":"rottnest-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/rottnest-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Rottnest Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Rottnest Island Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A 38-year-old man has died after a suspected shark attack near Rottnest Island recently, a popular tourist destination off the coast of Western Australia. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Rottnest Island<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an <\/span><b>Australian island <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the <\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indian-ocean\/\" target=\"_blank\">Indian Ocean<\/a>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It lies 19 km northwest of Fremantle (at the <\/span><b>mouth of the Swan River,<\/b> <b>near Perth<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), <\/span><b>Western Australia.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><b>coastal limestone fragment<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the island measures about 11 by 5 km and has<\/span><b> sand dunes and several salt lakes.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was sighted in 1658 by a Dutch party under Samuel Volkerson.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1696 a <\/span><b>Dutch sea captain, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Willem de Vlamingh,<\/span><b> gave the island its original name,<\/b> <b>Rottenest (meaning \u201crat\u2019s nest\u201d)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, because the place <\/span><b>appeared to be infested with large rats.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These, in<\/span><b> reality, were quokkas (a kind of wallaby), rare marsupials <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">whose existence is <\/span><b>now protected<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the island\u2019s status as a <\/span><b>wildlife sanctuary.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>First settled in the 1830s<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Rottnest has <\/span><b>served as a pilot station for Fremantle,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> an <\/span><b>Aboriginal penal settlement (to 1850), a juvenile reformatory (1882\u20131906)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and a <\/span><b>World War II military base.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is<\/span><b> now a resort<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the Perth area and is accessible by sea and air. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/international\/australia\/rottnest-shark-attack-man-killed-after-suspected-shark-attack-in-waters-off-wa-coast\/articleshow\/131132444.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ET<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rottnest Island is an Australian island near Perth, known for quokkas, salt lakes, colonial history and its role as a protected wildlife sanctuary. 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