Badger Island
 Badger Island
Location of the Badger Island in Bass Strait
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| Location | Bass Strait |
| Coordinates | 40°18′36″S 147°52′12″E / 40.31000°S 147.87000°ECoordinates: 40°18′36″S 147°52′12″E / 40.31000°S 147.87000°E |
| Archipelago | Badger Group, part of the Furneaux Group |
| Area | 1,242 ha (3,070 acres) |
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| State | Tasmania |
The Badger Island, part of the Badger Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 1,242-hectare (3,070-acre) unpopulated low-lying granite and limestone island, located in Bass Strait, lying west of the Flinders and Cape Barren islands, Tasmania, south of Victoria, in south-eastern Australia.
The island is private property and is extensively grazed by and macropods. It contains a homestead, jetty and airstrip. It is also part of the Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups Important Bird Area.
Besides Badger Island, other islands that comprise the Badger Group include the Goose, Inner Little Goose, Little Badger, Little Goose, Mount Chappell, and Beagle islands, and the North West Mount Chappell Islet.
Introduced plants, grazing and burning have had a heavy impact on the original vegetation, of which there are remnant communities of Poa and Stipa species at the western end of the island, as well as patches of Melaleuca and Casuarina scrub.
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