Location Bass Strait State Tasmania | Area 2.5 ha (6.2 acres) Island group Furneaux Group | |
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Archipelago Badger Group, part of the Furneaux Group | ||
The Little Badger Island, part of the Badger Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 2.5-hectare (6.2-acre) unpopulated low-lying granite island, located in Bass Strait, lying west of the Flinders and Cape Barren islands, Tasmania, south of Victoria, in south-eastern Australia.
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Map of Little Badger Island, Tasmania, Australia
The island is contained within a nature reserve. The island is also part of the Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups Important Bird Area.
Fauna
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species include little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, white-faced storm-petrel, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher, black-faced cormorant and Caspian tern.
References
Little Badger Island Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA