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Sentinel Island (Tasmania)
Sentinel Island
is a
granite
island, with an
area
of 10
ha
, in south-eastern
Australia
. It is part of Tasmania’s
Sentinel
Island Group
,
lying in
eastern
Bass Strait
off the north-west coast of
Flinders Island
in the
Furneaux Group
. Until
1985
it was used for grazing
sheep
.
Sentinel
Island
Group
The Sentinel
Island Group includes:
Sentinel Island
Gossys Reef
Little Island
Fauna
s and
waders
recorded
as
breeding
on
the island
include
little penguin
,
short-tailed shearwater
,
common diving-petrel
,
white-faced storm-petrel
,
silver gull
,
Pacific gull
,
Caspian tern
and
sooty oystercatcher
. The
metallic skink
is present.