Little Goose Island (Tasmania)
- Little Goose Island (Tasmania)
Little Goose Island is a flat, round granite island, with an area of 3.6 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Badger Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait next to Goose and Inner Little Goose Islands, west of Flinders and Cape Barren Islands in the Furneaux Group. It is a nature reserve.
Fauna
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are Little Penguin, Short-tailed Shearwater, Pacific Gull, Sooty Oystercatcher and [Black-faced Cormorant. The Metallic Skink is present] .[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] ]References
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