Shag Island (other)
Shag Island may refer to: * Shag Island (South Australia), South Australia * Shag Reef, Tasmania, Australia * Tarahiki Island, also known as Shag Island, Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand * Shag Islands, Newfoundland, Canada * Shag Islet, a small island 10 km north of Heard Island. See also * Shag Rock (other) * Shag Rocks (other) * Shag Reef Shag Reef, part of the Sister Islands Conservation Area, is a small granite island, with an area of located in Bass Strait, Tasmania, Australia. Location and features The Shag Reef is located north of Flinders Island in the Furneaux Group. ...

Shag Island (South Australia)
Shag Island is a low island located at the mouth of Fisherman Bay in Spencer Gulf, South Australia. It is approximately 22 ha (54 acres) in size with a peak elevation of approximately 4 metres (13 feet). It is uninhabited by humans but is home to thousands of cormorants which roost and breed there. It is also an important nursery-ground for fish. In April 2013, the discovery of several sick and dead cormorants near Fisherman Bay raised public concerns for the health of the Shag Island colony. The discovery coincided with significant fish and dolphin mortality events around the state, mostly concentrated in Spencer Gulf and Gulf St. Vincent. Wildlife The following birds have been recorded at Shag Island: great cormorant, little black cormorant, pied cormorant, little pied cormorant, red-necked stint, sharp-tailed sandpiper, red-capped plover, banded stilt, bar-tailed godwit, grey plover, common greenshank The common greenshank (''Tringa nebularia'') is a wader in the la ...
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Shag Reef
Shag Reef, part of the Sister Islands Conservation Area, is a small granite island, with an area of located in Bass Strait, Tasmania, Australia. Location and features The Shag Reef is located north of Flinders Island in the Furneaux Group. The island has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports over 1% of the world population of black-faced cormorants, with 500-600 individual birds. As well as the cormorants, seabirds and waders recorded as breeding on the island include silver and Pacific gulls, Caspian terns and sooty oystercatchers. See also * Inner Sister Island Inner Sister Island, part of the Sister Islands Conservation Area, is a granite and dolerite island, with an area of , located in Bass Strait, Tasmania, Australia. Location and features The Inner Sister Island is located north of Flinders Is ... * Outer Sister Island References Furneaux Group Important Bird Areas of Tasmania {{Tasmania-geo-s ...
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Tarahiki Island
Tarahiki Island, also known as Shag Island, is a island in the Hauraki Gulf of New Zealand. Its highest point is ASL and it lies from the mainland and about east of Waiheke Island. It is well known for its breeding colony of up to 700 spotted shags.Parrish, G.R. (2002). Classified summarised notes, North Island, 1 July 2000 to 30 June 2001. ''Notornis'' 49: 100-110. See also * List of islands of New Zealand * List of islands * Desert island A desert island, deserted island, or uninhabited island, is an island, islet or atoll that is not permanently populated by humans. Uninhabited islands are often depicted in films or stories about shipwrecked people, and are also used as stereot ... References External links Tarahiki Island (Shag Island) on NZ Topo Map Uninhabited islands of New Zealand Islands of the Hauraki Gulf Islands of the Auckland Region {{Auckland-geo-stub ...
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Shag Islands
The Shag Islands are a small group of islands in the southern part of Coppett Harbour, off the south coast of Newfoundland, Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot .... They lie to the east of Bonalds Island. The southernmost island, Shag Island, is described as "a conspicuous white rock, 12.8m high". References External linksGoogle Earth Islands of Newfoundland and Labrador {{Newfoundland-geo-stub ...
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Newfoundland And Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region of Labrador, having a total size of 405,212 square kilometres (156,500 sq mi). In 2021, the population of Newfoundland and Labrador was estimated to be 521,758. The island of Newfoundland (and its smaller neighbouring islands) is home to around 94 per cent of the province's population, with more than half residing in the Avalon Peninsula. Labrador borders the province of Quebec, and the French overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon lies about 20 km west of the Burin Peninsula. According to the 2016 census, 97.0 per cent of residents reported English as their native language, making Newfoundland and Labrador Canada's most linguistically homogeneous province. A majority of the population is descended from English and Irish s ...
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Heard Island
The Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) is an Australian external territory comprising a volcanic group of mostly barren Antarctic islands, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica. The group's overall size is in area and it has of coastline. Discovered in the mid-19th century, the islands lie on the Kerguelen Plateau in the Indian Ocean and have been an Australian territory since 1947. They contain Australia's only two active volcanoes. The summit of one, Mawson Peak, is higher than any mountain in all other Australian states or territories, except Dome Argus, Mount McClintock and Mount Menzies in the Australian Antarctic Territory. The islands are among the most remote places on Earth: They are located about southwest of Perth, southwest of Cape Leeuwin, Australia, southeast of South Africa, southeast of Madagascar, north of Antarctica, and southeast of the Kerguelen Islands (part of French Southern and Antarctic Lands). The isla ...
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Shag Rock (other)
Shag Rock may refer to the following places: * Shag Rock (Antarctica) * Shag Rock (California), United States * Rapanui Rock, also called "Shag Rock", located in New Zealand * Shag Rock (Houtman Abrolhos), Australia See also * Shag Rock (band), Australian band formed in 2011 * Shag Rocks (other) * Shag Reef Shag Reef, part of the Sister Islands Conservation Area, is a small granite island, with an area of located in Bass Strait, Tasmania, Australia. Location and features The Shag Reef is located north of Flinders Island in the Furneaux Group. ...

Shag Rocks (other)
Shag Rocks may refer to: * Shag Rocks (Massachusetts) * Shag Rocks, South Georgia The Shag Rocks ( es, Islas Aurora) are six small islets, as opposed to islands, in the westernmost extreme of South Georgia, west of the main island of South Georgia and off the Falkland Islands. The Shag Rocks are located at . further sou ... * Shag Rocks (Western Australia), rocks in Western Australia See also * Shag Reef * Shag Rock (other) {{geodis ...
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