Location of the North West Mount Chappell Islet in
Bass Strait | |
Etymology | Flinders: Mount Chappelle, for his wife's maiden name [1] |
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Geography | |
Location | Bass Strait |
Coordinates | 40°16′S 147°54′E / 40.267°S 147.900°E |
Archipelago | Badger Group, part of the Furneaux Group |
Area | 7,100 m2 (76,000 sq ft) |
Administration | |
Australia | |
State | Tasmania |
The North West Mount Chappell Islet, part of the Badger Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 7,100-square-metre (76,000 sq ft) unpopulated mainly granite islet, in Bass Strait, lying west of the Flinders and Cape Barren islands, Tasmania, south of Victoria, in south-eastern Australia. [2] The island is located within a conservation area [3] and is part of the Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups Important Bird Area. [4]
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are little penguin, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher, black-faced cormorant and Caspian tern. [3]