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Chalky Island (Tasmania)

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Chalky Island (Tasmania)

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The Chalky Island, part of the Big Green Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 41-hectare (100-acre) unpopulated granite island with limestone outcrops and dolerite dykes, located in the Bass Strait, west of the Flinders Island, in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia. The island is contained within a conservation area and is part of the Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups Important Bird Area.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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