North West Mount Chappell Islet should not be confused with Mount Chappell Island.
North West Mount Chappell Islet | |
Etymology: | Flinders Mount Chappelle, for his wife's maiden name[1] |
Map: | Australia Tasmania |
Map Relief: | 1 |
Map Width: | 280 |
Location: | Bass Strait |
Coordinates: | -40.2667°N 201°W |
Archipelago: | Badger Group, part of the Furneaux Group |
Area M2: | 7100 |
Country: | Australia |
Country Admin Divisions Title: | State |
Country Admin Divisions: | Tasmania |
The North West Mount Chappell Islet, part of the Badger Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 7100m2 unpopulated mainly granite islet, in Bass Strait, lying west of the Flinders and Cape Barren islands, Tasmania, south of Victoria, in south-eastern Australia.[2] The island is located within a conservation area and is part of the Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups Important Bird Area.[3]
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are little penguin, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher, black-faced cormorant and Caspian tern.[4]