Map of the Hogan Group showing Long Islet.
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Location of the Long Islet in Bass Strait
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Location | Bass Strait |
Coordinates | 39°12′00″S 147°00′00″E / 39.20000°S 147.00000°ECoordinates: 39°12′00″S 147°00′00″E / 39.20000°S 147.00000°E |
Archipelago | Hogan Group |
Area | 22.85 ha (56.5 acres) |
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Australia
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State | Tasmania |
The Long Islet, part of the Hogan Group, is a 22.85-hectare (56.5-acre) unpopulated long, narrow granite island, located in northern Bass Strait, lying north of the Furneaux Group in Tasmania and south of Wilsons Promontory in Victoria, in south-eastern Australia.
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species include little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, Pacific gull, silver gull and sooty oystercatcher. White's skink is present.