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Fatima Island is a small island on Cooks River in Tempe,
Fatima Island is a small island on Cooks River in Tempe, New South Wales
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, Australia. A low-lying sandbar, it is a refuge for Australian pelican
The Australian pelican (''Pelecanus conspicillatus'') is a large waterbird in the family Pelecanidae, widespread on the inland and coastal waters of Australia and New Guinea, also in Fiji, parts of Indonesia and as a vagrant in New Zealand ...
s, egret
Egrets ( ) are herons, generally long-legged wading birds, that have white or buff plumage, developing fine plumes (usually milky white) during the breeding season. Egrets are not a biologically distinct group from herons and have the same build ...
s and silver gulls. It was named in 1951 for a Portuguese statue of Our Lady of Fátima.
The island is slowly being washed away, something that is of concern to local environmentalists.
References
Islands of New South Wales Cooks River {{Sydney-geo-stub