Tucks Reef is a small rocky island, with an area of 1.14 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Vansittart Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait between Flinders and Cape Barren Islands in the Furneaux Group.

Fauna edit

Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are little penguin, white-faced storm-petrel, silver gull, pied oystercatcher and sooty oystercatcher.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ Brothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; & Halley, Vanessa. (2001). Tasmania’s Offshore Islands: seabirds and other natural features. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery: Hobart. ISBN 0-7246-4816-X

40°15′S 148°14′E / 40.250°S 148.233°E / -40.250; 148.233