Robbins Island (Tasmania)

Robbins Island
Robbins Island is located in Tasmania
Robbins Island
Robbins Island
Location of Robbins Island in the Bass Strait
EtymologyCharles Robbins[1]
Geography
LocationBass Strait
Coordinates40°41′24″S 144°54′36″E / 40.69000°S 144.91000°E / -40.69000; 144.91000
Area9,900 ha (24,000 acres)
Area rank7th in Tasmania[2]
Administration
Australia
StateTasmania
LGACircular Head Council
Additional information
Time zone
 • Summer (DST)
Privately-owned

Robbins Island is a 9,900-hectare (24,000-acre) island located in Bass Strait, lying off the northwest coast of Tasmania, Australia.[3] The island, separated from the Tasmanian mainland by a highly tidal area known as Robbins Passage,[4] lies south to the adjacent Walker Island.[5]

Robbins Island is the seventh largest island of Tasmania[2] and is the largest freehold island in Tasmania.[6] Over the years Robbins Island has changed ownership and to this day remains privately owned.[7]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference records was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b "1384.6 - Statistics - Tasmania, 2008". Australian Bureau of Statistics. 3 January 2008. Retrieved 10 January 2010.
  3. ^ "Robbins Island (TAS)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
  4. ^ "Scalefish Fishery Management Plan Review Information Paper" (PDF). Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery Management Plan. State Library of Tasmania. March 2004. Retrieved 9 January 2010.
  5. ^ "False Killer Whale stranding, Walker's Island, Tasmania". National Whale and Dolphin Sightings and Strandings Database. Australian Government - Department of the Environment and Water Resources. January 2010. Retrieved 10 January 2010.
  6. ^ "Steer way to heaven for Japan's top meat". What the papers said... Sunday Tasmanian. 27–28 August 2006. Archived from the original on 8 March 2011. Retrieved 9 January 2010.
  7. ^ Ryan, L (1996). The Aboriginal Tasmanians. Allen & Unwin Academic - 2nd edition. pp. 139, 283. ISBN 1-86373-965-3. Retrieved 9 January 2010.