The Little Waterhouse Island, part of the Waterhouse Island Group, is a 2.5-hectare (6.2-acre) granite island situated in Banks Strait, part of Bass Strait, lying close to the north-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia.
 The island is an important breeding site for black-faced cormorants. | |
  Little Waterhouse Island Location of Little Waterhouse Island off the coast of Tasmania | |
| Etymology | Captain Henry Waterhouse |
|---|---|
| Geography | |
| Location | Banks Strait, Bass Strait |
| Coordinates | 40°49′S 147°37′E / 40.817°S 147.617°E |
| Archipelago | Waterhouse Island Group |
| Area | 2.5 ha (6.2 acres) |
| Administration | |
Australia | |
| State | Tasmania |
The Waterhouse Island Group includes the Waterhouse, Little Waterhouse, Swan, Little Swan, Cygnet, Foster, St Helens, Ninth, Tenth, Paddys, Maclean, and Baynes islands and the Bird Rock, and George Rocks islets with their associated reefs.
Most of the island is bare rock.[1] The island forms part of the Ninth and Little Waterhouse Islands Important Bird Area (IBA), so identified by BirdLife International because it holds over 1% of the world population of black-faced cormorants.[2]
Fauna
editAs well as black-faced cormorants, recorded breeding seabird and wader species are the little penguin, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher and Caspian tern.[1]
See also
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References
edit- ^ a b Brothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; & Halley, Vanessa. (2001). Tasmania’s Offshore Islands: seabirds and other natural features. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery: Hobart. ISBN 0-7246-4816-X
- ^ "IBA: Ninth and Little Waterhouse Islands". Birdata. Birds Australia. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 31 August 2011.