Briggs Islet
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Briggs Islet appears below Great Dog Island in this picture | |
  Briggs Islet | |
| Geography | |
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| Location | Bass Strait |
| Coordinates | 40°15′S 148°16′E / 40.250°S 148.267°ECoordinates: 40°15′S 148°16′E / 40.250°S 148.267°E |
| Archipelago | Great Dog Island Group |
| Area | 3.4 ha (8.4 acres) |
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Australia | |
| State | Tasmania |
Briggs Islet is a small granite island, with an area of 3.4 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Great Dog Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait between Flinders and Cape Barren Islands in the Furneaux Group. It is a conservation area.[1] The island is part of the Franklin Sound Islands Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because it holds over 1% of the world populations of six bird species.[2]
Fauna
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are little penguin, white-faced storm-petrel, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher, Caspian tern, crested tern and white-fronted tern.[1]
See also
References
- 1 2 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
- ↑ "IBA: Franklin Sound Islands". Birdata. Birds Australia. Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2011-06-22.
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