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Puncheon Island

Coordinates: 40°18′S 148°18′E / 40.300°S 148.300°E / -40.300; 148.300
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Puncheon Island is an island, with an area of 17.56 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Vansittart Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait between Flinders and Cape Barren Islands in the Furneaux Group. It is surrounded by mudflats. It is privately owned and used for farming. It has been extensively burnt and grazed.

Fauna

Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are short-tailed shearwater, Pacific gull and sooty oystercatcher.[1]

See also

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°18′S 148°18′E / 40.300°S 148.300°E / -40.300; 148.300


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