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Nares Rocks

Coordinates: 40°35′S 144°41′E / 40.583°S 144.683°E / -40.583; 144.683
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Nares Rocks are a group of three rocks with a total area of 0.76 ha in Bass Strait, part of Tasmania’s Hunter Island Group and lie between north-west Tasmania and King Island. They are steep and largely bare of vegetation.

Fauna

Breeding seabirds and shorebirds include common diving-petrel, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher and black-faced cormorant.[1]

References

  1. ^ 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

40°35′S 144°41′E / 40.583°S 144.683°E / -40.583; 144.683


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