Anderson Island
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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.
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