South West Isle | |
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Map: | Australia Tasmania |
Map Width: | 280 |
Map Relief: | 1 |
Coordinates: | -39.52°N 147.12°W |
Location: | Bass Strait |
Archipelago: | Kent Group |
Area Ha: | 19.1 |
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Elevation M: | 120 |
Country: | Australia |
Country Admin Divisions Title: | State |
Country Admin Divisions: | Tasmania |
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Population: | unpopulated |
The South West Isle, part of the Kent Group, is an unpopulated 19.09ha granite island, located in the Bass Strait, lying off the north-east coast of Tasmania, between the Furneaux Group and Wilsons Promontory in Victoria, Australia.
The island has a peak elevation of and is contained within the Kent Group National Park, Tasmania's northernmost national park, which was gazetted in 2002.
Recorded breeding seabird, wader and waterbird species include little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, fairy prion, common diving-petrel, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher and Cape Barren goose. Reptiles present are the metallic skink, Bougainville's skink and White's skink.[1]