Beagle Island

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]

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]

See also

1. ^ ^{a b c} Brothers, N. P.; Pemberton, D.; Skira, I. J. (1997). "Seabird islands No 235, Beagle Island, Furneaux Group, Tasmania" (PDF). Corella. 21 (3): 94–96. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2014. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
2. ^ "Beagle Island (TAS)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
3. ^ "Small Bass Strait Island Reserves. Draft Management Plan". Department of Primary Industries,Water and Environment, Tasmanian Government. October 2000. Archived from the original on 30 March 2011. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
4. ^ ^{a b} Brothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; & Halley, Vanessa. (2001). Tasmania’s Offshore Islands: seabirds and other natural features. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery: Hobart. ISBN 0-7246-4816-X
5. ^ "IBA: Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups". Birdata. Birds Australia. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 14 June 2011.

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