Little Chalky Island is a small, flat, granite island with an area of 5 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Big Green Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait west of Flinders in the Furneaux Group.[1] The island is also part of the Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups Important Bird Area.[2]
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are Little Penguin, Short-tailed Shearwater, White-faced Storm-Petrel, Pacific Gull, Sooty Oystercatcher, Black-faced Cormorant and Caspian Tern. Cape Barren Geese also breed on the island. The Metallic Skink is present.[1]