Little Badger Island should not be confused with Badger Island.
| Little Badger Island | |
| Map: | Australia Tasmania |
| Map Relief: | 1 |
| Map Width: | 280 |
| Location: | Bass Strait |
| Archipelago: | Badger Group, part of the Furneaux Group |
| Area Ha: | 2.5 |
| Country: | Australia |
| Country Admin Divisions Title: | State |
| Country Admin Divisions: | Tasmania |
The Little Badger Island, part of the Badger Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 2.5ha unpopulated low-lying granite island, located in Bass Strait, lying west of the Flinders and Cape Barren islands, Tasmania, south of Victoria, in south-eastern Australia.[1]
The island is contained within a nature reserve. The island is also part of the Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups Important Bird Area.[2]
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species include little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, white-faced storm-petrel, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher, black-faced cormorant and Caspian tern.[3]