Tea Island | |
Type: | Island |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Tea Island shown within the Falkland Islands |
Coordinates: | -51.9°N -61.1667°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Falkland Islands |
Subdivision Type1: | Island group |
Seat Type: | Main settlement |
Population As Of: | 2001 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone1: | FKST |
Utc Offset1: | −3 |
Footnotes: | If shown, area and population ranks are for all islands and all inhabited islands in the Falklands respectively. |
Tea Island is one of the Falkland Islands. It is beside Staats Island, and is just to the south west of Weddell Island. It is shaped like an upside down "h". It has some of the few examples of Felton's Flower, a rare endemic Falkland species.
It was also a site where the Patagonian fox was introduced in the early 1930s, along with other islands in the Weddell group, such as Staats and Beaver Island.[1] In 2009, Tea Island became the first site of multispecies eradication of both Patagonian foxes and Norway rats, resulting in significant increases in bird populations.[2]