Swan Island (Tasmania)
| Swan Island | ||
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 with Little Swan Island at the top right of the picture |
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| Waters | Bass Street | |
| Geographical location | 40 ° 44 ′ S , 148 ° 6 ′ E | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Swan Island is a granite island on the northeast coast of Tasmania , Australia . It has a size of 239 hectares and is part of the Waterhouse Island group . The island is in the Roaring Forties .
Part of the island is privately owned. There is an automatic lighthouse and several houses on the island, as well as a landing strip for planes. The island was previously used as a pasture . There are several shipwrecks on the island: Brenda (1832), Mystery (1850), Union (1852).
fauna
Swan Island is part of the Cape Portland Important Bird Area . Among other things, the following were observed as nesting birds: Little penguin , thick-billed gull , herring head gull , soot oystercatcher , Australian oystercatcher , predatory tern , common tern . The chicken goose also nests on the island. The reptiles on the island include various species of skink and the common tiger otter . Wild rabbits and house mice can be found on the island .
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: Cape Portland . In: Birdata . Birds Australia. Retrieved June 12, 2011.