Mile Island | |
Map: | Australia Tasmania |
Map Relief: | 1 |
Map Width: | 280 |
Location: | Bass Strait |
Archipelago: | Big Green Group, part of the Furneaux Group |
Area Ha: | 4 |
Country: | Australia |
Country Admin Divisions Title: | State |
Country Admin Divisions: | Tasmania |
The Mile Island, part of the Big Green Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 4ha granite island, located in Bass Strait west of Flinders Island, in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia. The island is partly 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, Pacific gull, sooty oystercatcher and black-faced cormorant. The metallic skink is present.[1]