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Gull Island (Tasmania)

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Location
  
Bass Strait

State
  
Tasmania

Area
  
8.5 ha (21 acres)

Island group
  
Furneaux Group

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Archipelago
  
Passage Group, part of the Furneaux Group

The Gull Island, part of the Passage Group within the Furneaux Group, is an 8.5-hectare (21-acre) granite island, located in Bass Strait southeast of Cape Barren Island, in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia. The island is a conservation reserve and with the Passage and Forsyth islands, the Gull 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.

Contents

Map of Gull Island, Tasmania, Australia

Fauna

Recorded breeding seabird and wader species include little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, white-faced storm-petrel, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher and crested tern.

References

Gull Island (Tasmania) Wikipedia