Furneaux (biogeographic region)


Furneaux is an interim Australian bioregion that comprises the Furneaux Group of more than one hundred islands off the northeast coast of Tasmania, Australia comprising.
Furneaux Island, located at the eastern entrance to Bass Strait, is home to a range of native plants and animals, including the Furneaux burrowing crayfish, a threatened species of crayfish in the family Parastacidae, endemic to Australia.