Tin Kettle Island

It is part of Tasmania’s Tin Kettle 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.

[3] Their numbers had multiplied by 1861 when guano surveyor John Thomas visited the island.

The original vegetation has mostly been replaced by introduced pasture grasses.

The intertidal areas support large numbers of migratory waders.