Ninth Island
| Ninth Island | ||
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| Waters | Bass Street | |
| Geographical location | 40 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ S , 147 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 1.3 km | |
| width | 500 m | |
| surface | 32 ha | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Ninth Island is an island on the Bass Strait in southeast Australia .
The island is approximately 1.3 kilometers long, 550 meters wide and has an area of 32 hectares . It is part of the Waterhouse Island Group and is located 11.7 kilometers off the northeast coast of Tasmania . Most of the island is privately owned and has been badly damaged in the past from pasture use and frequent fires. In July 1995, she was hit by the oil spill from the sinking of the MV Iron Baron , killing between 2000 and 6000 little penguins on the island .
The island has not yet had a jetty or a landing strip for planes and can therefore only be reached by helicopter.
Around 1988/89, Ninth Island was bought for AU $ 64,000 . In February 2015, the island went on sale for AU $ 500,000. On July 11, 2015, it was sold at auction for AU $ 1.19 million.
Ninth Island is part of the Dorset Council territory.
The island is officially recognized as a protected area as there is a breeding colony of the short-tailed shearwater on the island. It is part of the Ninth and Little Waterhouse Islands Important Bird Area (IBA). It has been classified by BirdLife International because it is home to more than one percent of the total black face scar population.
Of the 32 hectares of Ninth Island, the Ninth Island Conservation Area was designated in 2012 with a size of 26.4 hectares. The reserve includes the land around the island's central hill and extends to the shore. In addition, the land below the flood edge has been declared Tidal Crown Land , administered by the Tasmanian National Parks and Wildlife Service .
fauna
On the island nest next to the black-faced cormorant following seabirds: little penguins, short-tailed shearwaters, petrel , white-faced storm petrel , Pacific Gull , Silver Gull , sooty oystercatcher and greater crested tern . The chicken goose also breeds on the island. Wild rabbits have been introduced to the island and there are skinks living on it.
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 .
- ↑ Jonathan Chancellor, Danielle Cook: Islands turned into paradise for investors. In: Sydney Morning Herald. May 9, 1989, p. 7 , accessed October 20, 2015 (English).
- ^ Bass Strait's Ninth Island on market for $ 500,000. In: The Mercury. February 11, 2015, accessed October 20, 2015.
- ↑ Kirsten Robb: Aussie island passes in at auction in disagreement over just $ 5000. In: Domain. July 11, 2015, accessed October 20, 2015 .
- ↑ Tasmanian Acts and Statutory Rules ( Memento of the original of July 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 20, 2015.
- ↑ Image gallery of the island , accessed on October 20, 2015.
- ↑ IBA: Ninth and Little Waterhouse Islands . In: Birdata . Birds Australia. Retrieved August 31, 2011.
- ^ Land Information System Tasmania. In: Tasmanian Government. Retrieved October 20, 2015 .
