Penguin Islet (Tasmania)

Penguin Islet is a small island nature reserve with an area of 3.46 ha in Bass Strait, south-eastern Australia.

It is part of Tasmania’s Hunter Island Group which lies between north-west Tasmania and King Island.

It is notable as the only pelican colony in western Bass Strait.

[2] Breeding seabirds and shorebirds include little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, fairy prion, common diving-petrel, white-faced storm-petrel, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher, black-faced cormorant, Australian pelican and Caspian tern.

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