Bird Rock (Tasmania) (original) (raw)
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Island in Tasmania, Australia
Bird Rock
  Bird RockLocation of Bird Rock off the coast of Tasmania |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Banks Strait, Bass Strait |
| Coordinates | 40°55′S 148°19′E / 40.917°S 148.317°E / -40.917; 148.317 |
| Archipelago | Waterhouse Island Group |
| Area | 1 ha (2.5 acres) |
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| Australia | |
| State | Tasmania |
| Demographics | |
| Population | uninhabited |
The Bird Rock, part of the Waterhouse Island Group, is an uninhabited 1-hectare (2.5-acre) granite islet situated in Banks Strait, part of Bass Strait, lying close to the north-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia.[1]
Other islands in the Waterhouse Group include Ninth, Tenth, Waterhouse, Little Waterhouse, Maclean, Baynes, Cygnet, Swan, Foster, Little Swan, St Helens and Paddys islands and George Rocks islet.[1]
Recorded breeding seabird species are little penguin, common diving-petrel, Pacific gull and Caspian tern.[1]
- ^ a b c Brothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; & Halley, Vanessa. (2001). Tasmania’s Offshore Islands: seabirds and other natural features. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery: Hobart. ISBN 0-7246-4816-X