Beagle Island should not be confused with Beagle Islands.
| Beagle Island | |
| Map: | Australia Tasmania |
| Map Relief: | 1 |
| Map Width: | 280 |
| Location: | Bass Strait |
| Coordinates: | -40.33°N 147.92°W |
| Archipelago: | Badger Group, part of the Furneaux Group |
| Area Ha: | 1.2 |
| Country: | Australia |
| Country Admin Divisions Title: | State |
| Country Admin Divisions: | Tasmania |
The Beagle Island, part of the Badger Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 1.2ha unpopulated low, flat granite island, located in Bass Strait, lying west of the Flinders and Cape Barren islands, Tasmania, south of Victoria, in south-eastern Australia.[1] [2] The island is contained within a nature reserve and is part of the Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups Important Bird Area.[3]
The island was named after by Captain John Lort Stokes, who surveyed the area in 1840.[2]
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher, black-faced cormorant and Caspian tern.[4]