New Year Island (Tasmania)

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New Year Island is an island game reserve with an area of 98.22 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s New Year Island Group which includes the much larger King Island, lying north-west of Tasmania in Bass Strait.

[edit] Fauna

Breeding seabird and shorebird species include Short-tailed Shearwater, Fairy Prion, Pacific Gull, Silver Gull and Sooty Oystercatcher. Reptiles include Tiger Snake, White's Skink, Metallic Skink and Eastern Blue-tongued Lizard. A species of mouse is present.[1]

[edit] References

  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

Coordinates: 39°40′S 143°50′E / -39.667, 143.833


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