Area 1 ha (2.5 acres) Population uninhabited | ||
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.
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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(Text) CC BY-SA