The Little Chalky Island, part of the Big Green Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 5-hectare (12-acre) unpopulated granite island, located in the Bass Strait, west of the Flinders Island and south of Chalky Island, in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia.[1][2] The island is part of the Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups Important Bird Area.[3]

Little Chalky Island

Little Chalky Island Location of the Little Chalky Island in Bass Strait
Geography
Location	Bass Strait
Coordinates	40°07′48″S 147°53′24″E
Archipelago	Big Green Group, part of the Furneaux Group
Area	5 ha (12 acres)
Administration
Australia
State	Tasmania
Demographics
Population	unpopulated

Fauna

Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, white-faced storm-petrel, Pacific gull, sooty oystercatcher, black-faced cormorant and Caspian tern. Cape Barren geese also breed on the island. The metallic skink is present.[2]

See also

• List of islands of Tasmania

References

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