Doughboy Island (Tasmania)

Doughboy Island is in the top right of this photo taken from the south east

Doughboy Island (named the "Isle of Caves" upon discovery by Matthew Flinders on the 15th of December, 1798[1]) is a mainly granite island, with an area of 30 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Tin Kettle Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait between Flinders and Cape Barren Islands in the Furneaux Group. It has been devastated by irresponsible farming practices and fire.

Fauna

Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are little penguin, Pacific gull and sooty oystercatcher. The metallic skink is present.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Flinders M: A Voyage to Terra Australia, Undertaken for the Purpose of Completing the Discovery of that Vast Country, and Prosecuted in the Years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in His Majesty's Ship the Investigator and Subsequently in the Armed Vessel Porpoise and Cumberland Schooner, 1814. URL: http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6u9dAAAAcAAJ
  2. ↑ 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°20′S 148°03′E / 40.333°S 148.050°E