Little Badger Island
 Little Badger Island
Location of the Little Badger Island in Bass Strait
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| Location | Bass Strait |
| Coordinates | 40°18′00″S 147°54′36″E / 40.30000°S 147.91000°ECoordinates: 40°18′00″S 147°54′36″E / 40.30000°S 147.91000°E |
| Archipelago | Badger Group, part of the Furneaux Group |
| Area | 2.5 ha (6.2 acres) |
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| State | Tasmania |
The Little Badger Island, part of the Badger Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 2.5-hectare (6.2-acre) unpopulated low-lying granite 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 contained within a nature reserve. The island is also part of the Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups Important Bird Area.
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species include little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, white-faced storm-petrel, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher, black-faced cormorant and Caspian tern.
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