Night Island (Tasmania)

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Night Island is a small granite island, with an area of 2.59 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Preservation Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait south of Cape Barren Island in the Furneaux Group. It is a Conservation Area.

[edit] Fauna

Recorded breeding seabird and wader species include Little Penguin, Pacific Gull, Sooty Oystercatcher and Black-faced Cormorant (for which it is an important breeding site).[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: 40°29′S 148°01′E / -40.483, 148.017


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