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Briggs Islet

Coordinates: 40°15′S 148°16′E / 40.250°S 148.267°E / -40.250; 148.267
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Briggs Islet
Briggs Islet appears below Great Dog Island in this picture
Briggs Islet is located in Tasmania
Briggs Islet
Briggs Islet
Geography
LocationBass Strait
Coordinates40°15′S 148°16′E / 40.250°S 148.267°E / -40.250; 148.267
ArchipelagoGreat Dog Island Group
Area3.4 ha (8.4 acres)
Administration
Australia
StateTasmania

Briggs Islet is a small granite island, with an area of 3.4 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Great Dog Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait between Flinders and Cape Barren Islands in the Furneaux Group. It is a conservation area.[1] The island is part of the Franklin Sound Islands Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because it holds over 1% of the world populations of six bird species.[2]

Fauna

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Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are little penguin, white-faced storm-petrel, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher, Caspian tern, crested tern and white-fronted tern.[1]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ "BirdLife Data Zone Franklin Sound Islands". BirdLife International. Retrieved 26 May 2017.