The Chalky Island, part of the Big Green Group within the Furneaux Group, is a unpopulated granite island with limestone outcrops and dolerite dykes, located in the Bass Strait, west of the Flinders Island, in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia. The island is contained within a conservation areaBrothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; & Halley, Vanessa. (2001). Tasmania’s Offshore Islands: seabirds and other natural features. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery: Hobart. and is part of the Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups Important Bird Area.
Fauna Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, white-faced storm petrel, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher, pied oystercatcher, black-faced cormorant, Caspian tern and fairy tern. Reptiles present include the metallic Skink, White's skink, white-lipped snake and tiger snake.
See also
List of islands of Tasmania
References