Location Bass Strait Area 3.4 ha (8.4 acres) | Archipelago Great Dog Island Group State Tasmania | |
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Briggs Islet is a small granite island, with an area of 3.4 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Great Dog Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait between Flinders and Cape Barren Islands in the Furneaux Group. It is a conservation area. The island is part of the Franklin Sound Islands Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because it holds over 1% of the world populations of six bird species.
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Map of Briggs Islet, Tasmania, Australia
Fauna
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are little penguin, white-faced storm-petrel, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher, Caspian tern, crested tern and white-fronted tern.
References
Briggs Islet Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA