Maclean Island | |
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Map: | Australia Tasmania |
Map Relief: | 1 |
Coordinates: | -40.75°N 203°W |
Location: | Bass Strait |
Archipelago: | Waterhouse Island Group |
Area Ha: | 1.11 |
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Country: | Australia |
Country Admin Divisions Title: | State |
Country Admin Divisions: | Tasmania |
Population: | uninhabited |
The Maclean Island, part of the Waterhouse Island Group, is a 1.11ha uninhabited 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, Baynes, St Helens, Foster, Swan, Little Swan, Cygnet and Paddys islands and Bird Rock and George Rocks islets.[1]
Recorded breeding seabird species are the little penguin and Pacific gull. The Cape Barren goose has also nested on the island.[1]