  North West Mount Chappell IsletLocation of the North West Mount Chappell Islet in Bass Strait | |
| Etymology | Flinders: Mount Chappelle, for his wife's maiden name |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Bass Strait |
| Coordinates | 40°16′S 147°54′E / 40.267°S 147.900°E / -40.267; 147.900 |
| Archipelago | Badger Group, part of the Furneaux Group |
| Area | 7,100 m (76,000 sq ft) |
| Administration | |
| Australia | |
| State | Tasmania |
The North West Mount Chappell Islet, part of the Badger Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 7,100-square-metre (76,000 sq ft) unpopulated mainly granite islet, in Bass Strait, lying west of the Flinders and Cape Barren islands, Tasmania, south of Victoria, in south-eastern Australia. The island is located within a conservation area and is part of the Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups Important Bird Area.
Fauna
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are little penguin, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher, black-faced cormorant and Caspian tern.
See also
References
- Flinders, Matthew (1802). Observations.
- "Small Bass Strait Island Reserves. Draft Management Plan". Department of Primary Industries,Water and Environment, Tasmanian Government. October 2000. Archived from the original on 30 March 2011. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
- ^ 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: Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups". Birdata. Birds Australia. Retrieved 14 June 2011.
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