Beagle Island
Island in Tasmania, Australia
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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]
  Beagle Island Location of the Beagle Island in Bass Strait | |
| Etymology | HMS Beagle[1] |
|---|---|
| Geography | |
| Location | Bass Strait |
| Coordinates | 40°19′48″S 147°55′12″E |
| Archipelago | Badger Group, part of the Furneaux Group |
| Area | 1.2 ha (3.0 acres) |
| Administration | |
Australia | |
| State | Tasmania |
The island was named after HMS Beagle by Captain John Lort Stokes, who surveyed the area in 1840.[1]
Fauna
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]
