Beagle Island

For the Island in Antarctica, see Beagle Island (Antarctica).
Not to be confused with Beagle Islands.
Beagle Island
Beagle Island

Location of the Beagle Island in Bass Strait

Geography
Location Bass Strait
Coordinates 40°19′48″S 147°55′12″E / 40.33000°S 147.92000°E / -40.33000; 147.92000Coordinates: 40°19′48″S 147°55′12″E / 40.33000°S 147.92000°E / -40.33000; 147.92000
Archipelago Badger Group, part of the Furneaux Group
Area 1.2 ha (3.0 acres)
Administration
Australia
State Tasmania

The Beagle Island, part of the Badger Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 1.2-hectare (3.0-acre) unpopulated low, flat granite island, located in Bass Strait, lying west of the Flinders and Cape Barren islands, Tasmania, south of Victoria, in south-eastern Australia.[1][2] The island is contained within a nature reserve[3] and is part of the Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups Important Bird Area.[4]

Fauna

Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher, black-faced cormorant and Caspian tern.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Beagle Island (TAS)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
  2. ↑ "Small Bass Strait Island Reserves. Draft Management Plan". Department of Primary Industries,Water and Environment, Tasmanian Government. October 2000. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
  3. 1 2 Brothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; & Halley, Vanessa. (2001). Tasmania’s Offshore Islands: seabirds and other natural features. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery: Hobart. ISBN 0-7246-4816-X
  4. ↑ "IBA: Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups". Birdata. Birds Australia. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 14 June 2011.


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