Bird Rock | |
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Map: | Australia Tasmania |
Map Relief: | 1 |
Coordinates: | -40.9167°N 167°W |
Location: | Banks Strait, Bass Strait |
Archipelago: | Waterhouse Island Group |
Area Ha: | 1 |
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Country: | Australia |
Country Admin Divisions Title: | State |
Country Admin Divisions: | Tasmania |
Population: | uninhabited |
The Bird Rock, part of the Waterhouse Island Group, is an uninhabited 1ha granite islet situated in Banks Strait, part of Bass Strait, lying close to the north-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia.[1]
Other islands in the Waterhouse Group include Ninth, Tenth, Waterhouse, Little Waterhouse, Maclean, Baynes, Cygnet, Swan, Foster, Little Swan, St Helens and Paddys islands and George Rocks islet.[1]
Recorded breeding seabird species are little penguin, common diving-petrel, Pacific gull and Caspian tern.[1]