Lachlan Island

Lachlan Island Location in Tasmania
Geography
Location	East Coast Tasmania
Coordinates	42°38′24″S 147°58′12″E / 42.64000°S 147.97000°E / -42.64000; 147.97000
Archipelago	Maria Island Group
Adjacent to	Mercury Passage
Area	2.5 ha (6.2 acres)
Administration
Australia
State	Tasmania
Additional information
Time zone	AEST (UTC+10)
• Summer (DST)	AEDT (UTC+11)

The Lachlan Island, part of the Maria Island Group, is an island with an area of about 2.5 hectares (6 acres) lying close to the south-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia. The island is located near the Freycinet Peninsula, situated midway between Maria Island and the Tasmanian mainland.^[1]

Fauna

Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, kelp gull, sooty oystercatcher and Caspian tern. Rabbits were introduced in the early 20th century and were eventually eradicated in the 1990s.^[1]

See also

• List of islands of Tasmania
• Tasmania's offshore islands

References

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