Mutton Bird Island

Mutton Bird Island
	A Landsat image of the Mutton Bird Islands Group; the Mutton Bird Island is the largest island that is located closest to the coast.
	Mutton Bird Island Location off the south western coast of Tasmania
Geography
Location	South western Tasmania
Coordinates	43°25′12″S 145°57′58″E / 43.42000°S 145.96611°E
Archipelago	Mutton Bird Islands Group
Adjacent to	Southern Ocean
Area	44 ha (110 acres)
Highest elevation	40 m (130 ft)
Administration
	Australia
State	Tasmania
Region	South West
Demographics
Population	Unpopulated

Mutton Bird Island is an irregularly shaped unpopulated island located close to the south-western coast of Tasmania, Australia. Situated some 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) south of where the mouth of Port Davey meets the Southern Ocean, the 44-hectare (110-acre) is the largest of the eight islands that comprise the Mutton Bird Islands Group. The Mutton Bird Island is part of the Southwest National Park and the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Site.^[1]^[2]

The highest point of Mutton Bird Island is 40 metres (130 ft) above sea level.

Fauna

The island is part of the Port Davey Islands Important Bird Area, so identified by BirdLife International because of its importance for breeding seabirds.^[3] Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are the little penguin (3,000 pairs), short-tailed shearwater, (530,000 pairs), fairy prion (2,500 pairs), Pacific gull, silver gull and sooty oystercatcher. Reptiles present are the metallic skink and Tasmanian tree skink.^[2]

^ ^a ^b "Small Southern Islands Conservation Management Statement 2002" (PDF). Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service. 2002. p. 30. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 August 2006. Retrieved 20 July 2006.
^ ^a ^b Brothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; Halley, Vanessa (2001). Tasmania's Offshore Islands: seabirds and other natural features. Hobart: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. ISBN 0-7246-4816-X.
^ "IBA: Port Davey Islands". Birdata. Birds Australia. Retrieved 19 September 2011.