The Foster Islands, part of the
Waterhouse Island Group, are two small
granite islands with a combined area of situated in Banks Strait, part of
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 close to the north-eastern coast of
Tasmania, Australia.
[Brothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; & Halley, Vanessa. (2001). ''Tasmania’s Offshore Islands: seabirds and other natural features''. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery: Hobart. ] The islands form part of Small Bass Strait Island
nature reserve.
Other islands in the Waterhouse Group include
Ninth
In music, a ninth is a compound interval consisting of an octave plus a second.
Like the second, the interval of a ninth is classified as a dissonance in common practice tonality. Since a ninth is an octave larger than a second, its ...
,
Tenth,
Waterhouse Waterhouse may refer to:
People
*Waterhouse (surname)
Places
* Waterhouse, Tasmania, a locality in Australia
* Waterhouse Island (disambiguation)
* Waterhouse district of Kingston, Jamaica
** Waterhouse F.C., a football club based in the Waterho ...
,
Little Waterhouse,
Maclean,
Baynes,
Gygnet,
Swan
Swans are birds of the family (biology), family Anatidae within the genus ''Cygnus''. The swans' closest relatives include the goose, geese and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form t ...
,
Little Swan,
St Helens and
Paddys islands and
Bird Rock and
George Rocks
The George Rocks, also historically known as King George's Rocks, is part of the Waterhouse Island Group, a group of three adjacent uninhabited granite islets and associated reefs with a combined area of , situated in Banks Strait, part of Bas ...
islets.
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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 ...
, short-tailed shearwater
The short-tailed shearwater or slender-billed shearwater (''Ardenna tenuirostris''; formerly ''Puffinus tenuirostris''), also called yolla or moonbird, and commonly known as the muttonbird in Australia, is the most abundant seabird species in A ...
, white-faced storm-petrel, Pacific gull, sooty oystercatcher and Australian pelican. Cape Barren geese also breed on the island. The metallic skink is present.[
]
See also
* List of islands of Tasmania
References
Islands of North East Tasmania
Protected areas of Tasmania
Waterhouse Island group
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