Tucks Reef

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Tucks Reef is a small rocky island, with an area of 1.14 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Vansittart 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, Silver Gull, Pied Oystercatcher and Sooty Oystercatcher.[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°15′S 148°14′E / -40.25, 148.233


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