Location Bass Strait Elevation 356 m | State Tasmania Area 7.5 km² | |
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Archipelago Passage Group, part of the Furneaux Group | ||
The Forsyth Island, part of the Passage Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 167-hectare (410-acre) granite island, located in Bass Strait south of Cape Barren Island, in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia. With the Passage and Gull islands, the Forsyth Island forms part of the Forsyth, Passage and Gull Islands Important Bird Area (IBA), identified as such by BirdLife International because it supports over 1% of the world populations of little penguins and black-faced cormorants.
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Map of Forsyth Island, Anakoha, New Zealand
Fauna
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species include little penguin (147,000 pairs), short-tailed shearwater, white-faced storm-petrel, Pacific gull and sooty oystercatcher. Recorded mammals are the swamp rat and a species of small mouse. Reptiles present include the eastern blue-tongued lizard and tiger snake.