Spike Island | |
Map: | Australia Tasmania |
Map Relief: | 1 |
Map Width: | 280 |
Location: | Bass Strait |
Coordinates: | -40.55°N 148.1°W |
Archipelago: | Passage Group, part of the Furneaux Group |
Total Islands: | 2 |
Area Ha: | 6 |
Country: | Australia |
Country Admin Divisions Title: | State |
Country Admin Divisions: | Tasmania |
The Spike Island, part of the Passage Group within the Furneaux Group, is a close pair of unpopulated granite islands with a combined area of, located in Bass Strait, south of Cape Barren Island in Spike Bay just off the west coast of Clarke Island, in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia.[1]
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species include little penguin, Pacific gull, silver gull and sooty oystercatcher.[2]