Fulham Island is a privately owned island with an area of . It is part of the
Sloping Island Group
The Sloping Island Group is a group of small islands in south-eastern Tasmania in Australia.
They lie close to the south-eastern coast of Tasmania around the Tasman and Forestier Peninsulas.Brothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; & Ha ...
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around the
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Forestier Peninsula
The Forestier Peninsula is a peninsula located in south-east Tasmania, Australia, approximately by the Arthur Highway, south-east of Hobart. The peninsula is connected to mainland Tasmania at East Bay Neck, near the town of at its norther ...
s in
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, 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. ]
Owner
In 2016, Fulham Island was purchased by the Singaporean Hotelier and property magnate
Koh Wee Meng (Aka "James Koh") through his company "JK Island Pty Ltd".
James Koh is a billionaire and controls Singapore-listed
Fragrance Group.
Despite facing objections in a Tasmanian planning tribunal from local wildlife groups,
James Koh's company continues construction of a
jetty
A jetty is a structure that projects from land out into water. A jetty may serve as a breakwater, as a walkway, or both; or, in pairs, as a means of constricting a channel. The term derives from the French word ', "thrown", signifying some ...
on the island.
Marine
Waldemar reef is present at the north-east end of Fulham island.
Flora and fauna
The island has been extensively
grazed and the vegetation is dominated by introduced
grass
Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns a ...
es,
bracken
Bracken (''Pteridium'') is a genus of large, coarse ferns in the family Dennstaedtiaceae. Ferns (Pteridophyta) are vascular plants that have alternating generations, large plants that produce spores and small plants that produce sex cells (eggs ...
,
boxthorn
''Lycium'' is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, Solanaceae. The genus has a disjunct distribution around the globe, with species occurring on most continents in temperate and subtropical regions. South America has the most ...
and some remnant
blackwoods.
[
Recorded breeding ]seabird
Seabirds (also known as marine birds) are birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment. While seabirds vary greatly in lifestyle, behaviour and physiology, they often exhibit striking convergent evolution, as the same enviro ...
species are little penguin, short-tailed shearwater and kelp gull
The kelp gull (''Larus dominicanus''), also known as the Dominican gull, is a gull that breeds on coasts and islands through much of the Southern Hemisphere. The nominate ''L. d. dominicanus'' is the subspecies found around South America, part ...
.[
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See also
Old county map featuring Fulham island as 'Green Island'.
References
Sloping Island Group
Private islands of Tasmania
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