Spences Reefs

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Spences Reefs comprises two islets, with a combined area of 0.65 ha, in south-eastern Australia. They are close to the south-east corner of Little Green Island and part of Tasmania’s Great Dog Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait between Flinders and Cape Barren Islands in the Furneaux Group.

[edit] Fauna

Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are Little Penguin, White-faced Storm-Petrel, Sooty Oystercatcher, Pied Oystercatcher and Caspian Tern. Rats are present, with evidence that they prey on the storm-petrels.[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°13′S 148°14′E / -40.217, 148.233

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