Location of the Inner Little Goose Island in Bass Strait
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Location | Bass Strait |
Coordinates | 40°17′S 147°47′E / 40.283°S 147.783°ECoordinates: 40°17′S 147°47′E / 40.283°S 147.783°E |
Archipelago | Badger Group, part of the Furneaux Group |
Area | 4.5 ha (11 acres) |
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State | Tasmania |
The Inner Little Goose Island, part of the Badger Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 4.5-hectare (11-acre) unpopulated small, round granite island, located in Bass Strait between Goose and Little Goose islands, lying west of the Flinders and Cape Barren islands, Tasmania, south of Victoria, in south-eastern Australia. The island is contained within a conservation area and is part of the Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups Important Bird Area.
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, Pacific gull and sooty oystercatcher. The eastern three-lined skink is present.