Doughboy Island (Tasmania) - Misplaced Pages

Island in Tasmania, Australia This article is about the single island in Bass Strait. For the pair of islands near Cape Grim, see The Doughboys (Tasmania). For other places with the same name, see Doughboy Island.

Doughboy Island
Geography
Doughboy Island (top right), taken from the south east.
Doughboy IslandLocation of the Doughboy Island in Bass Strait
Location	Bass Strait
Coordinates	40°20′24″S 148°03′00″E / 40.34000°S 148.05000°E / -40.34000; 148.05000
Archipelago	Tin Kettle Group, part of the Furneaux Group
Area	30 ha (74 acres)
Administration
Australia
State	Tasmania

The Doughboy Island, part of the Tin Kettle Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 30-hectare (74-acre) unpopulated mainly granite island, located in Bass Strait, lying west of the Flinders and Cape Barren islands, Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia.

The island has been devastated by irresponsible farming practices and fire.

Fauna

Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are little penguin, Pacific gull and sooty oystercatcher. The metallic skink is present.

References

"Doughboy Island (TAS)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
"Small Bass Strait Island Reserves. Draft Management Plan". Department of Primary Industries,Water and Environment, Tasmanian Government. October 2000. Archived from the original on 30 March 2011. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
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 and islets of Tasmania, Australia

Islands located in the Bass Strait

Curtis Group	Cone Curtis Devils Tower Sugarloaf Rock
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	Southern 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
Rodondo Group	Rodondo Island East Moncoeur Island West Moncoeur Island
Waterhouse Group	Baynes Bird Cygnet Foster George Little Swan Little Waterhouse Maclean Ninth Paddys St Helens Swan Tenth Waterhouse
ungrouped	Garden Island (Tamar River) Goat Robbins Three Sisters Walker

Islands located in the Southern Ocean

ungrouped

Islands located in the Tasman Sea

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

Islands located in the South West Pacific Ocean
Bishop and Clerk Judge and Clerk Macquarie

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