Location of the Battery Island in Bass Strait | |
Geography | |
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Location | Bass Strait |
Coordinates | 40°27′00″S 148°10′12″E / 40.45000°S 148.17000°E |
Archipelago | Passage Group, part of the Furneaux Group |
Area | 2 ha (4.9 acres)[1] |
Length | 100 m (300 ft)[1] |
Width | 20 m (70 ft)[1] |
Administration | |
Australia | |
State | Tasmania |
The Battery Island, part of the Passage Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 2-hectare (4.9-acre) granite island, located in Bass Strait south of Cape Barren Island, in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia.[2][3][1]
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species include little penguin, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher and Caspian tern.[1][4]