Forsyth Island

For the island in the Marlborough Sounds of New Zealand's South Island, see Forsyth Island, New Zealand.
Forsyth Island top left, next to Passage Island (Tasmania)

Forsyth Island is a granite island, with an area of 167 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Passage Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait south of Cape Barren Island in the Furneaux Group.[1] With Passage and Gull Islands it forms part of the Forsyth, Passage and Gull Islands Important Bird Area (IBA), identified as such by BirdLife International because it supports over 1% of the world populations of little penguins and black-faced cormorants.[2]

Fauna

Recorded breeding seabird and wader species include little penguin (147,000 pairs), short-tailed shearwater, white-faced storm-petrel, Pacific gull and sooty oystercatcher. Recorded mammals are the swamp rat and a species of small mouse. Reptiles present include the eastern blue-tongued lizard and tiger snake.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 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
  2. ↑ "IBA: Forsyth, Passage and Gull Islands". Birdata. Birds Australia. Retrieved 2011-06-22.

Coordinates: 40°30′S 148°18′E / 40.500°S 148.300°E / -40.500; 148.300


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