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Briggs Islet
Geography
Briggs Islet appears below Great Dog Island in this picture
Briggs Islet
Location	Bass Strait
Coordinates	40°15′S 148°16′E / 40.250°S 148.267°E / -40.250; 148.267
Archipelago	Great Dog Island Group
Area	3.4 ha (8.4 acres)
Administration
Australia
State	Tasmania

Briggs Islet is a small granite island, with an area of 3.4 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Great Dog Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait between Flinders and Cape Barren Islands in the Furneaux Group. It is a conservation area.^[1] 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.^[2]

Fauna

^ ^a ^b 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
^ "BirdLife Data Zone Franklin Sound Islands". BirdLife International. Retrieved 26 May 2017.

Islands located in the Bass Strait

Curtis Group	Cone Curtis Devils Tower Sugarloaf Rock
Furneaux Group	Anderson Babel Badger Bass Battery Beagle Big Green Big Black Billy Goat Bird Boxen Briggs Cape Barren Cat Chalky Clarke Craggy Doughboy East Kangaroo Fifty Foot Fisher Flinders Forsyth Goose Great Dog Gull GVH Inner Little Goose Inner Sister Isabella Key Lady Barron Little Little Anderson Little Badger Little Chalky Little Dog Little Goose Little Green Little Spike Long Low Low (Prime Seal) Marriott Middle Pasco Mid Woody Mile Moriarty Mount Chappell Neds Night North Pasco North West Mount Chappell Outer Sister Oyster Passage Pelican Preservation Prime Seal Puncheon Roydon Rum Samphire Sentinel South Pasco Spike Storehouse Tin Kettle Vansittart Wright Wybalenna
Hogan Group	Southern Boundary East Hogan Long Round Seal Twin
Hunter Group	Albatross Hunter Three Hummock
Kent Group	Deal Dover Erith Judgement North East South West
New Year Group	Christmas Councillor King New Year
Rodondo Group	Rodondo Island East Moncoeur Island West Moncoeur Island
Waterhouse Group	Baynes Bird Cygnet Foster George Little Swan Little Waterhouse Maclean Ninth Paddys St Helens Swan Tenth Waterhouse
ungrouped	Garden Island (Tamar River) Goat Robbins Three Sisters Walker

Islands located in the Southern Ocean

ungrouped

Islands located in the Tasman Sea

Partridge Group	Arch Charity Faith Hope Partridge
Sloping Group	Barren Fulham Hog King George Little Spectacle Sloping Smooth Spectacle Visscher Woody
Tasman Group	Dart The Lanterns Tasman Wedge
ungrouped	Actaeon Boomer Bruny des Phoques du Nord Eddystone Egg Friars Garden Governor Green Images Lachlan Maria Nuggets Pedra Branca Picnic Satellite Schouten

Islands located in the South West Pacific Ocean
Bishop and Clerk Judge and Clerk Macquarie

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