Chalky Island (Tasmania) should not be confused with Little Chalky Island.
| Map: | Australia Tasmania |
| Map Width: | 280 |
| Map Relief: | 1 |
| Location: | Bass Strait |
| Coordinates: | -40.09°N 147.88°W |
| Archipelago: | Big Green Group, part of the Furneaux Group |
| Area Ha: | 41 |
| Country: | Australia |
| Country Admin Divisions Title: | State |
| Country Admin Divisions: | Tasmania |
| Population: | unpopulated |
The Chalky Island, part of the Big Green Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 41ha unpopulated granite island with limestone outcrops and dolerite dykes, located in the Bass Strait, west of the Flinders Island, in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia. The island is contained within a conservation area[1] and is part of the Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups Important Bird Area.[2]
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, white-faced storm petrel, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher, pied oystercatcher, black-faced cormorant, Caspian tern and fairy tern. Reptiles present include the metallic Skink, White's skink, white-lipped snake and tiger snake.[1]