Chalky Island (Tasmania)
Island in Tasmania, Australia
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The Chalky Island, part of the Big Green Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 41-hectare (100-acre) unpopulated granite island with limestone outcrops and dolerite dykes, located in the Bass Strait, west of the Flinders Island, in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia.[1] The island is contained within a conservation area[2] and is part of the Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups Important Bird Area.[3]
An aerial view of Chalky Island, from the east | |
  Location within Tasmania | |
| Geography | |
|---|---|
| Location | Bass Strait |
| Coordinates | 40°05′24″S 147°52′48″E |
| Archipelago | Big Green Group, part of the Furneaux Group |
| Area | 41 ha (100 acres) |
| Administration | |
Australia | |
| Tasmania | |
| Demographics | |
| Population | unpopulated |
Fauna
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, white-faced storm petrel, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher, pied oystercatcher, black-faced cormorant, Caspian tern and fairy tern. Reptiles present include the metallic Skink, White's skink, white-lipped snake and tiger snake.[2]
