The Doughboy Island, part of the
Tin Kettle Group within the
Furneaux Group, is a unpopulated mainly
granite island, located in
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 waterwa ...
, lying west of the
Flinders
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Places Antarctica
* Flinders Peak, near the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula
Australia New South Wales
* Flinders County, New South Wales
* Shellharbour Junction railway station, Shellharbour
* Flinders, New South Wa ...
and
Cape Barren islands,
Tasmania, in south-eastern
Australia
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.
The island has been devastated by irresponsible farming practices and fire.
Fauna
Recorded breeding
seabird and
wader species are
little penguin
The little penguin (''Eudyptula minor'') is a species of penguin from New Zealand. They are commonly known as little blue penguins or blue penguins owing to their slate-blue plumage and are also known by their Māori name .
The Australian lit ...
,
Pacific gull and
sooty oystercatcher. The
metallic skink is present.
[Brothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; & Halley, Vanessa. (2001). ''Tasmania’s Offshore Islands: seabirds and other natural features''. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery: Hobart. ]
See also
*
List of islands of Tasmania
References
Furneaux Group
Islands of North East Tasmania
Islands of Bass Strait
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