Location Bass Strait Area 6 ha (15 acres) Island group Furneaux Group | Total islands 2 State Tasmania | |
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Archipelago Passage Group, part of the Furneaux Group | ||
The Spike Island, part of the Passage Group within the Furneaux Group, is a close pair of unpopulated granite islands with a combined area of 6 hectares (15 acres), located in Bass Strait, south of Cape Barren Island in Spike Bay just off the west coast of Clarke Island, in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia.
Contents
Map of Spike Island, Tasmania, Australia
Fauna
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species include little penguin, Pacific gull, silver gull and sooty oystercatcher.
References
Spike Island (Tasmania) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA