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Badger Island Indigenous Protected Area
Badger Island, part of the Badger Group within the Furneaux Group, is a unpopulated low-lying granite and limestone island, located in Bass Strait, lying west of the Flinders Island, Flinders and Cape Barren Island, Cape Barren islands, Tasmania, south of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, in south-eastern Australia. The island is private property and is extensively grazed by livestock and Macropodidae, macropods. It contains a homestead (buildings), homestead, jetty and airstrip. It is also part of the Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups Important Bird Area. Besides Badger Island, other islands that comprise the Badger Group include the Goose Island (Tasmania), Goose, Inner Little Goose Island, Inner Little Goose, Little Badger Island, Little Badger, Little Goose Island, Little Goose, Mount Chappell Island, Mount Chappell, and Beagle Island, Beagle islands, and the North West Mount Chappell Islet. Flora and fauna Introduced plants, grazing and burning have had a heavy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bass Strait
Bass Strait () is a strait separating the island state of Tasmania from the Australian mainland (more specifically the coast of Victoria, with the exception of the land border across Boundary Islet). The strait provides the most direct waterway between the Great Australian Bight and the Tasman Sea, and is also the only maritime route into the economically prominent Port Phillip Bay. Formed 8,000 years ago by rising sea levels at the end of the last glacial period, the strait was named after English explorer and physician George Bass (1771-1803) by European colonists. Extent The International Hydrographic Organization defines the limits of Bass Strait as follows: :''On the west.'' The eastern limit of the Great Australian Bight eing a line from Cape Otway, Australia, to King Island (Tasmania)">King Island and thence to Cape Grim, the northwest extreme of Tasmania]. :''On the east.'' The western limit of the Tasman Sea between Gabo Island and Eddystone Point eing a line fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
