Bird Rock (Tasmania)

Bird Rock
Bird Rock is located in Tasmania
Bird Rock
Bird Rock
Location of Bird Rock off the coast of Tasmania
Geography
LocationBanks Strait, Bass Strait
Coordinates40°55′S 148°19′E / 40.917°S 148.317°E / -40.917; 148.317
ArchipelagoWaterhouse Island Group
Area1 ha (2.5 acres)
Administration
Australia
StateTasmania
Demographics
Populationuninhabited

The Bird Rock, part of the Waterhouse Island Group, is an uninhabited 1-hectare (2.5-acre) granite islet situated in Banks Strait, part of Bass Strait, lying close to the north-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia.[1]

Other islands in the Waterhouse Group include Ninth, Tenth, Waterhouse, Little Waterhouse, Maclean, Baynes, Cygnet, Swan, Foster, Little Swan, St Helens and Paddys islands and George Rocks islet.[1]

  1. ^ a b Brothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; & Halley, Vanessa. (2001). Tasmania’s Offshore Islands: seabirds and other natural features. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery: Hobart. ISBN 0-7246-4816-X