Barren Island (Tasmania)

Barren Island is a small island, with an area of 0.53 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of the Sloping Island Group, lying close to the south-eastern coast of Tasmania around the Tasman and Forestier Peninsulas.^[1]

Fauna

Recorded breeding seabird species are silver gull and kelp gull. The three-lined skink is also present.^[1]

1 2 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

Islands located in the Bass Strait

Furneaux Group	Anderson Babel Badger Bass Battery Beagle Big Green Big Black Billy Goat Bird Boxen Briggs Cape Barren Cat Chalky Clarke Craggy Doughboy East Kangaroo Fifty Foot Fisher Flinders Forsyth Goose Great Dog Gull GVH Inner Little Goose Inner Sister Isabella Key Lady Barron Little Little Anderson Little Badger Little Chalky Little Dog Little Goose Little Green Little Spike Long Low Low(Prime Seal) Marriott Middle Pasco Mid Woody Mile Moriarty Mount Chappell Neds Night North Pasco North West Mount Chappell Outer Sister Oyster Passage Pelican Preservation Prime Seal Puncheon Roydon Rum Samphire Sentinel South Pasco Spike Storehouse Tin Kettle Vansittart Wright Wybalenna

Hogan Group	Boundary East Hogan Long Round Seal Twin

Hunter Group	Albatross Hunter Three Hummock

Kent Group	Deal Dover Erith Judgement North East South West

New Year Group	Christmas Councillor King New Year

Waterhouse Group	Baynes Bird Cygnet Foster George Little Swan Little Waterhouse Maclean Ninth Paddys St Helens Swan Tenth Waterhouse

ungrouped	Goat Robbins Three Sisters Walker

Islands located in the Southern Ocean

ungrouped

Islands located in the Tasman Sea

ungrouped	Barren Boomer Bruny Dart des Phoques du Nord Eddystone Egg Friars Fulham Garden Governor Green Hog Hope Images King George Lachlan The Lanterns Little Spectacle Maria Nuggets Partridge Pedra Branca Picnic Satellite Schouten Sloping Smooth Spectacle Tasman Visscher Wedge Woody

Islands located in the South West Pacific Ocean

Bishop and Clerk Judge and Clerk Macquarie

South Eastern region of Tasmania, Australia

Governance
former

Mountains

Wellington	Wellington

Protected areas,
parks and reserves

Rivers

Harbours, bays, inlets and estuaries

Transport

Landmarks

Natural	Eaglehawk Neck Forestier Peninsula Tasman Peninsula

Islands

Tasman Island Group	Dart The Lanterns Tasman Wedge

Sloping Group‎	Barren Fulham Hog King George Little Spectacle Sloping Smooth Spectacle Visscher Woody

Books and newspapers

Bioregions

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