Little Chalky Island should not be confused with Chalky Island (Tasmania).
Little Chalky Island | |
Map: | Australia Tasmania |
Map Width: | 280 |
Map Relief: | 1 |
Location: | Bass Strait |
Coordinates: | -40.13°N 147.89°W |
Archipelago: | Big Green Group, part of the Furneaux Group |
Area Ha: | 5 |
Country: | Australia |
Country Admin Divisions Title: | State |
Country Admin Divisions: | Tasmania |
Population: | unpopulated |
The Little Chalky Island, part of the Big Green Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 5ha unpopulated granite island, located in the Bass Strait, west of the Flinders Island and south of Chalky Island, in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia.[1] The island 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, sooty oystercatcher, black-faced cormorant and Caspian tern. Cape Barren geese also breed on the island. The metallic skink is present.[1]