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Bird Rock (Tasmania)

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Area
  
1 ha (2.5 acres)

Population
  
uninhabited

State
  
Tasmania

Bird Rock (Tasmania)

Location
  
Banks Strait, Bass Strait

Archipelago
  
Waterhouse Island Group

The Bird Rock, part of the Waterhouse Island Group, is an uninhabited 1-hectare (2.5-acre) granite islet situated in Banks Strait, part of Bass Strait, lying close to the north-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia.

Contents

Map of Bird Rock, Tasmania, Australia

Other islands in the Waterhouse Group include Ninth, Tenth, Waterhouse, Little Waterhouse, Maclean, Baynes, Gygnet, Swan, Foster, Little Swan, St Helens and Paddys islands and George Rocks islet.

Fauna

Recorded breeding seabird species are little penguin, common diving-petrel, Pacific gull and Caspian tern.

References

Bird Rock (Tasmania) Wikipedia