Location Bass Strait State Tasmania | Area 7,100 m (76,000 sq ft) | |
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Etymology Flinders: Mount Chappelle, for his wife's maiden name Archipelago Badger Group, part of the Furneaux Group | ||
The North West Mount Chappell Islet, part of the Badger Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 7,100-square-metre (76,000 sq ft) unpopulated mainly granite islet, located in Bass Strait, lying west of the Flinders and Cape Barren islands, Tasmania, south of Victoria, in south-eastern Australia. The island is located within a conservation area and is part of the Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups Important Bird Area.
Fauna
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are little penguin, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher, black-faced cormorant and Caspian tern.
References
North West Mount Chappell Islet Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA