Battery Island Explained

Battery Island
Map:	Australia Tasmania
Map Relief:	1
Map Width:	280
Location:	Bass Strait
Archipelago:	Passage Group, part of the Furneaux Group
Area Ha:	2
Length M:	100
Width M:	20
Country:	Australia
Country Admin Divisions Title:	State
Country Admin Divisions:	Tasmania

The Battery Island, part of the Passage Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 2ha granite island, located in Bass Strait south of Cape Barren Island, in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia.^{[1] [2]}

Fauna

Recorded breeding seabird and wader species include little penguin, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher and Caspian tern.^{[2] [3]}

See also

• List of islands of Tasmania

Notes and References

1. Web site: Small Bass Strait Island Reserves. Draft Management Plan . . October 2000 . 4 February 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110330063352/http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/file.aspx?id=6388 . 30 March 2011 . dead .
2. Skira . I. J. . Brothers . N. P. . Seabird islands No 174, Babel Island, Furneaux Group, Tasmania . Corella . 11 . 3 . 83–84 . October 1987 . 19 August 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140303165520/http://absa.asn.au/Seabird%20Islands/PDF%20files/174%20Battery%20Is.pdf . 3 March 2014 . dead .
3. Brothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; & Halley, Vanessa. (2001). Tasmania’s Offshore Islands: seabirds and other natural features. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery: Hobart.