Location Bass Strait State Tasmania | Area 0.54 ha (1.3 acres) Island group Furneaux Group | |
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Archipelago Long Island Group, part of the Furneaux Group | ||
The Big Black Reef, part of the Long Island Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 0.54-hectare (1.3-acre) unpopulated small, flat dolerite island, located in Bass Strait, lying west of Cape Barren Island, Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia.
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Map of Big Black Reef, Tasmania, Australia
Together with the nearby Boxen Island, Big Black Reef is classified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area because it has been recorded as supporting 288 breeding pairs of black-faced cormorants.
Flora and fauna
As well as black-faced cormorant, recorded breeding seabird and wader species include little penguin, Pacific gull, sooty oystercatcher and Caspian tern.
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Big Black Reef Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA