Big Green Island
{{Short description|Island in Tasmania, Australia}}
{{Use Australian English|date=May 2024}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
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| map_caption = Location of the Big Green Island in Bass Strait
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| archipelago = Big Green Group, part of the Furneaux Group
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The Big Green Island, part of the Big Green Group within the Furneaux Group, is a {{convert|122|ha|adj=on}} granite island with limestone and dolerite outcrops, located in Bass Strait west of Flinders Island, in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia.{{Gazetteer of Australia |name=Big Green Island (TAS) |feature=TAS03811 }} The island is partly contained within a nature reserve with the rest being used for farming;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}} and is part of the Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups Important Bird Area.{{cite web|url=http://www.birdata.com.au/iba.vm |title=IBA: Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups |access-date=14 June 2011 |work=Birdata |publisher=Birds Australia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706102341/http://www.birdata.com.au/iba.vm |archive-date=6 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}
Besides the Big Green Island, other islands that comprise the Big Green Group include the Chalky, East Kangaroo, Isabella, Little Chalky and Mile islands.
Fauna
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are the little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher, pied oystercatcher, black-faced cormorant and Caspian tern. Cape Barren geese also breed on the island. Reptiles present include the metallic skink and Bougainville's skink. Rats are common.
See also
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References
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Category:Important Bird Areas of Tasmania