Craggy Island is a rugged granite island, with an area of 38. Granite (ˈɡrænɪt is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, Felsic, igneous rock. 88 ha, in south-eastern Australia. Explanation The hectare is commonly used in most countries around the world especially in domains concerned with land planning and management such as Agriculture, For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. It is part of Tasmania’s Bass Pyramid Group, lying in northern Bass Strait between Flinders Island and the Kent Group. Tasmania is an Australian island and state of the same name It is located south of the eastern side of the Continent, being separated from it by Bass Bass Strait (bæs is a sea Strait separating Tasmania from the south of the Australian mainland ( Victoria in particular Flinders Island is an island in the Bass Strait, located 20 km from Cape Portland being the north-eastern tip of Tasmania, Australia The Kent Group of Islands ( lies in Bass Strait, Australia, north-west of the Furneaux Group.
Fauna
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species include Little Penguin, Short-tailed Shearwater, Fairy Prion, Common Diving-Petrel, Pacific Gull and Sooty Oystercatcher. Seabirds are Birds that have adapted to life within the marine environment Waders, called shorebirds in North America (where "wader" is used to refer to long-legged wading Birds such as Storks and Korora redirects here For the Kororaa Linux operating system see Kororaa. The Short-tailed Shearwater Puffinus tenuirostris, or Yolla, more commonly known as the Muttonbird in Australia, is the most The Fairy Prion, Pachyptila turtur is a small up to 28cm long Seabird with grey upperparts plumage black-tipped tail black "M" wing markings The Common Diving-petrel ( Pelecanoides urinatrix) is a Diving-petrel, one of four very similar Auk -like small Petrels of the southern The Pacific Gull ( Larus pacificus) is a very large Gull, native to the coasts of Australia. The Sooty Oystercatcher, Haematopus fuliginosus, is a species of Oystercatcher. The Metallic Skink is present. The Metallic Skink ( Niveoscincus metallicus) is a species of Skink in the Scincidae family [1]
References
- ^ Brothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; & Halley, Vanessa. (2001). Tasmania’s Offshore Islands: seabirds and other natural features. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery: Hobart. ISBN 0-7246-4816-X