Tin Kettle Island

Tin Kettle Island aerial view

Tin Kettle Island is a long, sandy island, with an area of 176 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Tin Kettle Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait between Flinders and Cape Barren Islands in the Furneaux Group. The island is joined at low tide to nearby Anderson and Little Andersons by extensive intertidal mudflats. The island is farmed, mainly cattle grazing.^[1] The island is part of the Franklin Sound Islands Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because it holds over 1% of the world populations of six bird species.^[2]

Flora and fauna

The original vegetation has mostly been replaced by introduced pasture grasses.

Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are little penguin, Pacific gull, sooty oystercatcher and pied oystercatcher. The intertidal areas support large numbers of migratory waders. The metallic skink is 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
↑ "IBA: Franklin Sound Islands". Birdata. Birds Australia. Retrieved 2011-06-22.

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

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