Pelican Island (Tasmania)
- Pelican Island (Tasmania)
Pelican Island is an island, with an area of 6.8 ha including an associated reef joined to it at low tide, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Vansittart Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait between Flinders and Cape Barren Islands in the Furneaux Group. Until 1984 it was leased for grazing.
Fauna
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are Short-tailed Shearwater, White-faced Storm-Petrel, Pacific Gull, Caspian Tern and Sooty Oystercatcher. An unidentified skink is present and there is evidence of the presence of feral cats.[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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