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    Anderson Island

    40°18′S 148°06′E

    Anderson Island, also known as Woody Island, part of the Tin Kettle Island Group of the Furneaux Group, is a 166-hectare (410-acre) granite island, located in Bass Strait off the northeast coast of the Tasmanian mailand, in south-eastern Australia.

    Aerial photo of Anderson Is Tasmania from the south east, but camera was held at an odd angle. South is to left.
    Aerial photo of Anderson Is Tasmania from the south east, but camera was held at an odd angle. South is to left.

    Graeme Bartlett / CC BY-SA 3.0

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    40°18′S 148°06′E

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    Anderson Island, also known as Woody Island, part of the Tin Kettle Island Group of the Furneaux Group, is a 166-hectare (410-acre) granite island, located in Bass Strait off the northeast coast of the Tasmanian mailand, in south-eastern Australia. Anderson Island lies between Flinders and Cape Barren Islands and is partly covered by a pastoral lease enabling the grazing of sheep and cattle. The island is joined at low tide to nearby Little Anderson and Tin Kettle Islands by extensive intertidal mudflats. The island is supposedly named after John Anderson, a sealer living on the island by 1842. 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.

    From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

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    • Geometry, areas and high points: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Copernicus GLO-30, via Talus.
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