Fisher Island (Tasmania)

Fisher Island appears above the right end of Little Green Island in this aerial photo.

Fisher Island is a small granite island, with an area of 0.9 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Great Dog Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait between Flinders and Cape Barren Islands in the Furneaux Group. It is the site of a long-term, ongoing study of short-tailed shearwaters.

Fauna

Apart from the shearwaters, recorded breeding seabird species are little penguin, white-faced storm-petrel, Pacific gull and Caspian tern. The southern grass skink inhabits the island and occasional visits are made by white-lipped snake, lowland copperhead and rakali.^[1]

↑ 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

Islands located in the Bass Strait

Furneaux Group	Anderson Babel Badger Bass Battery Beagle Big Green Big Black Billy Goat Bird Boxen Briggs Cape Barren Cat Chalky Clarke Craggy Doughboy East Kangaroo Fifty Foot Fisher Flinders Forsyth Goose Great Dog Gull GVH Inner Little Goose Inner Sister Isabella Key Lady Barron Little Little Anderson Little Badger Little Chalky Little Dog Little Goose Little Green Little Spike Long Low Low(Prime Seal) Marriott Middle Pasco Mid Woody Mile Moriarty Mount Chappell Neds Night North Pasco North West Mount Chappell Outer Sister Oyster Passage Pelican Preservation Prime Seal Puncheon Roydon Rum Samphire Sentinel South Pasco Spike Storehouse Tin Kettle Vansittart Wright Wybalenna

Hogan Group	Boundary East Hogan Long Round Seal Twin

Hunter Group	Albatross Hunter Three Hummock

Kent Group	Deal Dover Erith Judgement North East South West

New Year Group	Christmas Councillor King New Year

Waterhouse Group	Baynes Bird Cygnet Foster George Little Swan Little Waterhouse Maclean Ninth Paddys St Helens Swan Tenth Waterhouse

ungrouped	Goat Robbins Three Sisters Walker

Islands located in the Southern Ocean

ungrouped

Islands located in the Tasman Sea

ungrouped	Barren Boomer Bruny Dart des Phoques du Nord Eddystone Egg Friars Fulham Garden Governor Green Hog Hope Images King George Lachlan The Lanterns Little Spectacle Maria Nuggets Partridge Pedra Branca Picnic Satellite Schouten Sloping Smooth Spectacle Tasman Visscher Wedge Woody

Islands located in the South West Pacific Ocean

Bishop and Clerk Judge and Clerk Macquarie

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