The Little Waterhouse Island, part of the Waterhouse Island Group, is a 2.5-hectare (6.2-acre) granite island situated in Banks Strait, part of Bass Strait, lying close to the north-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia.

Little Waterhouse Island

The island is an important breeding site for black-faced cormorants.
Little Waterhouse Island Location of Little Waterhouse Island off the coast of Tasmania
Etymology	Captain Henry Waterhouse
Geography
Location	Banks Strait, Bass Strait
Coordinates	40°49′S 147°37′E
Archipelago	Waterhouse Island Group
Area	2.5 ha (6.2 acres)
Administration
Australia
State	Tasmania

The Waterhouse Island Group includes the Waterhouse, Little Waterhouse, Swan, Little Swan, Cygnet, Foster, St Helens, Ninth, Tenth, Paddys, Maclean, and Baynes islands and the Bird Rock, and George Rocks islets with their associated reefs.

Most of the island is bare rock.[1] The island forms part of the Ninth and Little Waterhouse Islands Important Bird Area (IBA), so identified by BirdLife International because it holds over 1% of the world population of black-faced cormorants.[2]

Fauna

As well as black-faced cormorants, recorded breeding seabird and wader species are the little penguin, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher and Caspian tern.[1]

See also

• List of islands of Tasmania

References

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