Location of the Chalky Island in
Bass Strait | |
Geography | |
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Location | Bass Strait |
Coordinates | 40°05′24″S 147°52′48″E / 40.09000°S 147.88000°E |
Archipelago | Big Green Group, part of the Furneaux Group |
Area | 41 ha (100 acres) |
Administration | |
Australia | |
State | Tasmania |
Demographics | |
Population | unpopulated |
The Chalky Island, part of the Big Green Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 41-hectare (100-acre) unpopulated granite island with limestone outcrops and dolerite dykes, located in the Bass Strait, west of the Flinders Island, in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia. [1] The island is contained within a conservation area [2] and is part of the Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups Important Bird Area. [3]
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, white-faced storm petrel, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher, pied oystercatcher, black-faced cormorant, Caspian tern and fairy tern. Reptiles present include the metallic Skink, White's skink, white-lipped snake and tiger snake. [2]
Location of the Chalky Island in
Bass Strait | |
Geography | |
---|---|
Location | Bass Strait |
Coordinates | 40°05′24″S 147°52′48″E / 40.09000°S 147.88000°E |
Archipelago | Big Green Group, part of the Furneaux Group |
Area | 41 ha (100 acres) |
Administration | |
Australia | |
State | Tasmania |
Demographics | |
Population | unpopulated |
The Chalky Island, part of the Big Green Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 41-hectare (100-acre) unpopulated granite island with limestone outcrops and dolerite dykes, located in the Bass Strait, west of the Flinders Island, in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia. [1] The island is contained within a conservation area [2] and is part of the Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups Important Bird Area. [3]
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, white-faced storm petrel, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher, pied oystercatcher, black-faced cormorant, Caspian tern and fairy tern. Reptiles present include the metallic Skink, White's skink, white-lipped snake and tiger snake. [2]