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The Oyster Rocks are a close pair of small granite islands, with a combined area of about 6 ha, in south-eastern Australia. They are part of Tasmania’s Tin Kettle Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait between Flinders and Cape Barren Islands in the Furneaux Group. They are a conservation area.[1] The islands are 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]

Fauna

Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, white-faced storm-petrel, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher, Caspian tern and Cape Barren goose. Black-faced cormorants nest on the smaller western islet. The metallic skink is present.[1]

See also

• List of islands of Tasmania

References

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Les Oyster Rocks (rochers à huîtres) sont deux petites îles granitiques très proches d'une superficie totale d'environ 6 ha, au sud-est de l'Australie. Elles font partie du sous-archipel de Tin Kettle Island, en Tasmanie et sont situées à l'est du détroit de Bass, entre Flinders et Cape Barren Islands, dans l'archipel Furneaux.

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