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    Clarke Island

    40°32′S 148°10′E

    The Clarke Island, also known by its Indigenous name of Lungtalanana (from the palawa kani language), part of the Furneaux Group, is an 82-square-kilometre (32 sq mi) island in Bass Strait, south of Cape Barren Island (palawa kani: Truwana), about 24 kilometres (15 mi) off the northeast coast of Tasmania, Australia.

    40°32′S 148°10′E

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    The Clarke Island, also known by its Indigenous name of Lungtalanana (from the palawa kani language), part of the Furneaux Group, is an 82-square-kilometre (32 sq mi) island in Bass Strait, south of Cape Barren Island (palawa kani: Truwana), about 24 kilometres (15 mi) off the northeast coast of Tasmania, Australia. Banks Strait separates the island from Cape Portland on the mainland. Clarke Island is the third-largest island in the Furneaux Group, and Tasmania's eighth largest island. Off its west coast lies the shipwreck of HMS Litherland, which sank in 1853 and was discovered in 1983.

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    Also in Furneaux Group

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