Councillor Island

Councillor Island, part of the New Year Group, is a 10.53-hectare (26.0-acre) granite island located in the Bass Strait, lying off the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia.^{[1][2][3]: 53–55}

New Year Group

There are four islands in the New Year Group. Besides Councillor Island, these are:

• King Island,
• New Year Island and
• Christmas Island.

While King Island has the largest area of the four islands, the group is named after New Year Island because it was discovered by Europeans a few days earlier than King Island.^{[4][3]: 50–51}

Fauna

Breeding seabird and shorebird species include little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, fairy prion, common diving-petrel, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher, black-faced cormorant and Caspian tern. Reptiles include eastern blue-tongued lizard.^{[3]: 50–51}

The island forms part of the King Island Important Bird Area because of its importance for breeding seabirds and waders.^[5]

See also

1. ^ "Councillor Island (TAS)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
2. ^ "Travel: King Island". The Sydney Morning Herald. 8 February 2004. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
3. ^ ^{a b c} Brothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; Halley, Vanessa (2001). Tasmania's Offshore Islands: seabirds and other natural features. Hobart: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. ISBN 0-7246-4816-X.
4. ^ "Travel: King Island". The Sydney Morning Herald. 8 February 2004. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
5. ^ "King Island". Important Bird Areas factsheet. BirdLife International. 2011. Archived from the original on 10 July 2007. Retrieved 16 July 2011.

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