Ninth Island
 Ninth Island
Location of Ninth Island off the coast of Tasmania
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| Geography | |
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| Location | Bass Strait |
| Coordinates | 40°50′S 147°16′E / 40.833°S 147.267°ECoordinates: 40°50′S 147°16′E / 40.833°S 147.267°E |
| Archipelago | Waterhouse Island Group |
| Area | 32 ha (79 acres) |
| Length | 1.3 km (0.81 mi) |
| Width | 550 m (1,800 ft) |
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Australia
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| State | Tasmania |
| Demographics | |
| Population | uninhabited |
The Ninth Island, part of the Waterhouse Island Group, is a 32-hectare (79-acre) uninhabited granite island situated in Bass Strait, lying close to the north-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia.
Other islands in the Waterhouse Group include St Helens, Tenth, Waterhouse, Little Waterhouse, Maclean, Baynes, Foster, Swan, Little Swan, Cygnet and Paddys islands and Bird Rock and George Rocks islets.
The island is situated within the Dorset Municipality.
As well as the black-faced cormorants, recorded breeding seabirds and waders include the little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, common diving-petrel, white-faced storm-petrel, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher and crested tern. Cape Barren geese also breed there, European rabbits have been introduced and the southern grass skink is present.
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