Long Island (Tasmania)

This article is about the Tasmania island within the Furneaux Group. For the Tasmanian islet in the Hogan Group, see Long Islet (Tasmania).
For other places with the same name, see Long Island (disambiguation).

Long Island
View from south-east from Cape Barren Island (below) towards Long Island (upper left) and the smaller Doughboy Island (upper right).
Long Island is located in Tasmania
Long Island
Long Island
Location of the Long Island in Bass Strait
Geography
LocationBass Strait
ArchipelagoLong Island Group, part of the Furneaux Group
Area313 ha (770 acres)
Administration
Australia
StateTasmania

The Long Island, part of the Long Island Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 313-hectare (770-acre) unpopulated granite and dolerite island, located in Bass Strait, lying north-west of the Cape Barren Island in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia.[1][2][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]

  1. ^ "Long Island (TAS)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
  2. ^ "Long Island". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Brothers2001 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "BirdLife Data Zone Franklin Sound Islands". BirdLife International. Retrieved 26 May 2017.