Little Waterhouse Island

{{Short description|Island in Tasmania, Australia}}

{{distinguish|Waterhouse Island (Tasmania)}}

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| image_caption = The island is an important breeding site for black-faced cormorants.

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| map_caption = Location of Little Waterhouse Island off the coast of Tasmania

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| etymology = Captain Henry Waterhouse

| location = Banks Strait, Bass Strait

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| archipelago = Waterhouse Island Group

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The Little Waterhouse Island, part of the Waterhouse Island Group, is a {{convert|2.5|ha|adj=on}} granite island situated in Banks Strait, part of Bass Strait, lying close to the north-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia.

The Waterhouse Island Group includes the Waterhouse, Little Waterhouse, Swan, Little Swan, Cygnet, Foster, St Helens, Ninth, Tenth, Paddys, Maclean, and Baynes islands and the Bird Rock, and George Rocks islets with their associated reefs.

Most of the island is bare rock.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}} The island forms part of the Ninth and Little Waterhouse Islands Important Bird Area (IBA), so identified by BirdLife International because it holds over 1% of the world population of black-faced cormorants.{{cite web|url=http://www.birdata.com.au/iba.vm |title=IBA: Ninth and Little Waterhouse Islands |access-date=2011-08-31 |work=Birdata |publisher=Birds Australia |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706102341/http://www.birdata.com.au/iba.vm |archive-date=6 July 2011 }}