Craggy Island | |
Map: | Australia Tasmania |
Location: | Bass Strait |
Coordinates: | -39.6872°N 147.6781°W |
Archipelago: | Bass Pyramid Group |
Area Ha: | 39 |
Country: | Australia |
Country Admin Divisions Title: | State |
Country Admin Divisions: | Tasmania |
Craggy Island is a rugged granite island, with an area of 38.88 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Bass Pyramid Group lying in northern Bass Strait between Flinders Island and the Kent Group.
Robinson reports there was a sealing camp on the island in 1831.[1]
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species include little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, fairy prion, common diving-petrel, Pacific gull and sooty oystercatcher. The metallic skink is present.[2]