Pelican Island (Tasmania)

Pelican Island is an island, with an area of 6.8 ha (17 acres) including an associated reef joined to it at low tide, in south-eastern Australia.

It is part of Tasmania’s Vansittart Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait between Flinders and Cape Barren Islands in the Furneaux Group.

[1] The island is part of the Franklin Sound Islands Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because it holds over 1% of the world populations of six bird species.

[2] Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are short-tailed shearwater, white-faced storm-petrel, Pacific gull, Caspian tern and sooty oystercatcher.

An unidentified skink is present and there is evidence of the presence of feral cats.