The Mile Island, part of the Big Green Group within the Furneaux Group, is a granite island, located in Bass Strait west of Flinders Island, in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia. The island is partly contained within a conservation area;Brothers, 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, Pacific gull, sooty oystercatcher and black-faced cormorant. The metallic skink is present.

See also

List of islands of Tasmania

References