Location of the Beagle Island in
Bass Strait | |
Etymology | HMS Beagle [1] |
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Geography | |
Location | Bass Strait |
Coordinates | 40°19′48″S 147°55′12″E / 40.33000°S 147.92000°E |
Archipelago | Badger Group, part of the Furneaux Group |
Area | 1.2 ha (3.0 acres) |
Administration | |
Australia | |
State | Tasmania |
The Beagle Island, part of the Badger Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 1.2-hectare (3.0-acre) unpopulated low, flat granite island, located in Bass Strait, lying west of the Flinders and Cape Barren islands, Tasmania, south of Victoria, in south-eastern Australia. [2] [3] [1] The island is contained within a nature reserve [4] and is part of the Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups Important Bird Area. [5]
The island was named after HMS Beagle by Captain John Lort Stokes, who surveyed the area in 1840. [1]
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher, black-faced cormorant and Caspian tern. [4]