Lachlan Island
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Location in Tasmania
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Location | East Coast Tasmania |
Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Archipelago | Maria Island Group |
Adjacent bodies of water | Mercury Passage |
Area | Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). |
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Australia
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State | Tasmania |
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The Lachlan Island, part of the Maria Island Group, is an island with an area of about 2.5 hectares (6 acres) lying close to the south-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia. The island is located near the Freycinet Peninsula, situated midway between Maria Island and the Tasmanian mainland.[1]
Fauna
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, kelp gull, sooty oystercatcher and Caspian tern. Rabbits were introduced in the early 20th century and were eventually eradicated in the 1990s.[1]
See also
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