&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Anderson_Island_aerial.jpg) Anderson Island | |
&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Relief_Map_of_Tasmania.png)  Location of Anderson Island in Bass Strait | |
| Geography | |
|---|---|
| Location | Bass Strait |
| Coordinates | 40°18′10″S 148°06′35″E / 40.30278°S 148.10972°E |
| Archipelago | Furneaux Group |
| Area | 1.66 km2 (0.64 sq mi) |
| Administration | |
Australia | |
| State | Tasmania |
| LGA | Municipality of Flinders Island |
| Demographics | |
| Population | 0 (2018) |
The Anderson Island, also known as Woody Island, part of the Tin Kettle Island Group of the Furneaux Group, is a 166-hectare (410-acre) granite island, located in Bass Strait, lying northeast of Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia.[1] Anderson Island lies between Flinders and Cape Barren Islands and is partly a pastoral lease used for grazing sheep and cattle. The island is joined at low tide to nearby Little Anderson and Tin Kettle Islands by extensive intertidal mudflats.[2] The island is supposed to be named after John Anderson, a sealer living on the island by 1842.[3]
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.[4]
- ^ "Anderson Island (TAS)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Brothers2001was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Kostoglou, Parry (1996). Sealing in Tasmania (First ed.). Hobart: Parks and Wildlife Service. p. 102.
- ^ "BirdLife Data Zone Franklin Sound Islands". BirdLife International. Retrieved 26 May 2017.