Location of Swan Island off the coast of
Tasmania | |
Geography | |
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Location | Banks Strait, Bass Strait |
Coordinates | 40°43′S 148°04′E / 40.717°S 148.067°E |
Archipelago | Waterhouse Island Group |
Area | 12.64 ha (31.2 acres) |
Administration | |
Australia | |
State | Tasmania |
Demographics | |
Population | uninhabited |
The Little Swan Island, part of the Waterhouse Island Group, is a 12.64-hectare (31.2-acre) uninhabited granite island 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 [1] the Ninth, Tenth, Waterhouse, Little Waterhouse, Maclean, Baynes, Cygnet, Foster, Swan, Bird Rock, George Rocks, St Helens, and Paddys islands.
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, common diving-petrel, white-faced storm-petrel, Pacific gull, sooty oystercatcher and Australian pelican. The pelican colony is the southernmost in Australia. The metallic skink is present. [1]