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Spike Island (Tasmania)

Spike Island (Tasmania)

Island in Tasmania, Australia

For other places with the same name, see Spike Island.

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.[1][2]

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Fauna

Recorded breeding seabird and wader species include little penguin, Pacific gull, silver gull and sooty oystercatcher.[3]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Spike Island (TAS)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
  2. [2]
    "Small Bass Strait Island Reserves. Draft Management Plan". Department of Primary Industries,Water and Environment, Tasmanian Government. October 2000. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
  3. [3]
    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


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