Tenth Island

Tenth Island
Waters	Bass Street
Geographical location	40 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ S , 146 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 40 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ S , 146 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ E
length	180 m
width	80 m
surface	0.09 ha
Residents	uninhabited
	South African fur seal colony

Tenth Island (also called Barrenjoey ) is a small island and nature reserve with an area of 900 m ² . It is part of the Waterhouse Island Group on Tasmania's northeast coast . The island has no vegetation and it is largely washed over by the winter storms.

fauna

The island has a large colony of South African fur seals , with up to 400 animals being born each year. Black-history shags also breed on the island and little penguins live there.

Shark attack

While scuba diving at the fur seal colony, Therese Cartwright was killed by a five meter long white shark on June 5, 1993 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Nigel Brothers , David Pemberton, Helen Pryor, Vanessa Halley: Tasmania's Offshore Islands. Seabirds and other natural features. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart 2001, ISBN 0-7246-4816-X .
↑ Small Bass Strait Island Reserves.
↑ World Shark Attack Database: Fatal Shark Attack, Cartwright ( Memento from January 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
^ Tassie's History of Sharks ( Memento from July 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: The Mercury. Hobart, January 12, 2009.

[Brothers2001-1] Nigel Brothers , David Pemberton, Helen Pryor, Vanessa Halley: Tasmania's Offshore Islands. Seabirds and other natural features. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart 2001, ISBN 0-7246-4816-X .

[2] Small Bass Strait Island Reserves.

[3] World Shark Attack Database: Fatal Shark Attack, Cartwright ( Memento from January 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

[4] Tassie's History of Sharks ( Memento from July 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: The Mercury. Hobart, January 12, 2009.