Tea Island Explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Long, John L. . Introduced Mammals of the World: Their History, Distribution and Influence . 2003-08-14 . Csiro Publishing . 978-0-643-09916-6 . 246 . en.
  2. Web site: 2023-03-21 . A success story: 65 islands in the Falklands have been cleared of their invasive rats . 2024-06-24 . Mouse-Free Marion . en-US.