Island in Tasmania, Australia
Map of the Curtis Group
Curtis Island is a
granite island, with an area of 150
ha , in south-eastern
Australia . It is part of
Tasmania ’s Curtis Group, lying in northern
Bass Strait between the
Furneaux Group and
Wilsons Promontory in
Victoria . It is a
nature reserve and has been identified as an
Important Bird Area because it supports up to 390,000 breeding pairs of
short-tailed shearwaters or Tasmanian muttonbirds.
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It was named by lieutenant
James Grant , sailing on the
Lady Nelson , after Sir
Roger Curtis , British governor of the
Cape of Good Hope , in December 1800.
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[3]
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Fauna
As well as the shearwaters, recorded breeding
seabird and
wader species include
little penguin ,
fairy prion ,
Pacific gull and
sooty oystercatcher .
Reptiles present include
white-lipped snake ,
Bougainville's skink ,
White's skink and
metallic skink .
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See also
The other islands in the Curtis Group:
References
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"IBA: Curtis Island" . Birdata . Birds Australia. Archived from
the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 16 June 2011 .
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Grant, James (1803).
The narrative of a voyage of discovery, performed in His Majesty's vessel the Lady Nelson, of sixty tons burthen: with sliding keels, in the years 1800, 1801, and 1802, to New South Wales . Printed by C. Roworth for T. Egerton. p.
77 .
ISBN
978-0-7243-0036-5 . Retrieved 25 January 2012 .
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Lee, Ida (1915), The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson , London: Grafton, p. 328,
OL
6580132M , cited in Bird (2006)
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Bird, Eric (12 October 2006).
"Place Names on the Coast of Victoria" (PDF) . The Australian National Placename Survey (ANPS). Archived from
the original (PDF) on 18 February 2011.
^ 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
39°28′S 146°38′E / 39.467°S 146.633°E / -39.467; 146.633