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Long Islet (Tasmania)

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Location
  
Bass Strait

State
  
Tasmania

Area
  
22.85 ha (56.5 acres)

Archipelago
  
Hogan Group

Long Islet (Tasmania)

The Long Islet, part of the Hogan Group, is a 22.85-hectare (56.5-acre) unpopulated long, narrow granite island, located in northern Bass Strait, lying north of the Furneaux Group in Tasmania and south of Wilsons Promontory in Victoria, in south-eastern Australia.

Fauna

Recorded breeding seabird and wader species include little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, Pacific gull, silver gull and sooty oystercatcher. White's skink is present.

References

Long Islet (Tasmania) Wikipedia