Location of the Low Islets in
Bass Strait | |
Geography | |
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Location | Bass Strait |
Coordinates | 40°33′36″S 148°14′24″E / 40.56000°S 148.24000°E |
Archipelago | Passage Group, part of the Furneaux Group |
Total islands | 2 |
Area | 2 ha (4.9 acres) |
Administration | |
Australia | |
State | Tasmania |
The Low Islets, part of the Passage Group within the Furneaux Group, is a close pair of unpopulated small granite islands with a combined area of 2 hectares (4.9 acres), located in Bass Strait, south of Cape Barren Island, and west of both Spike and Clarke islands, in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia. [1] [2]
The island is one of only three sites where pelicans breed in Tasmania. [2] Recorded breeding seabird, wader and waterbird species include little penguin, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher, black-faced cormorant, Australian pelican, Caspian tern, crested tern and white-fronted tern. [3]