Little Waterhouse Island
| Little Waterhouse Island | ||
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| Waters | Bass Street | |
| Geographical location | 40 ° 49 ′ S , 147 ° 37 ′ E | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Little Waterhouse Island is an island measuring 2.5 hectares . It is part of the Waterhouse Island Group on the northeast coast of Tasmania , Australia .
The island consists mostly of bare rock. It is part of the Ninth and Little Waterhouse Islands Important Bird Area (IBA) as it is home to more than 1% of black face scars, according to BirdLife International estimates .
fauna
In addition to black-faced shags, a number of sea birds are recorded as breeding birds on the island; including Little Penguin , Pacific Gull , Silver Gull , sooty oystercatcher and Caspian tern .
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 .
- ↑ IBA: Ninth and Little Waterhouse Islands . In: Birdata . Birds Australia. Retrieved August 31, 2011.