Big Green Island
Island in Tasmania, Australia
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The Big Green Island, part of the Big Green Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 122-hectare (300-acre) granite island with limestone and dolerite outcrops, located in Bass Strait west of Flinders Island, in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia.[1] The island is partly contained within a nature reserve with the rest being used for farming;[2] and is part of the Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups Important Bird Area.[3]
An image of Big Green Island facing towards Mount Chappell Island with a flock of sheep in the foreground. | |
  Location within Tasmania | |
| Geography | |
|---|---|
| Location | Bass Strait |
| Coordinates | 40°10′48″S 147°58′12″E |
| Archipelago | Big Green Group, part of the Furneaux Group |
| Area | 122 ha (300 acres) |
| Administration | |
Australia | |
| State | Tasmania |
Besides the Big Green Island, other islands that comprise the Big Green Group include the Chalky, East Kangaroo, Isabella, Little Chalky and Mile islands.
Fauna
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Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are the little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher, pied oystercatcher, black-faced cormorant and Caspian tern. Cape Barren geese also breed on the island. Reptiles present include the metallic skink and Bougainville's skink.[2]
Black rats were eradicated from the island in 2016.[4]
