East Moncoeur Island

Coordinates: 39°13′S 146°32′E / 39.217°S 146.533°E

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East Moncoeur Island
Geography
East Moncoeur Island
Location	Bass Strait
Coordinates	39°13′S 146°32′E / 39.217°S 146.533°E / -39.217; 146.533
Area	14 ha (35 acres)
Administration
Australia
State	Tasmania

East Moncoeur Island is a granite island, with an area of 14 ha.

It is part of Tasmania’s Rodondo Group, lying in northern Bass Strait south of Wilsons Promontory in Victoria, in south-eastern Australia.^[1]

The island was sighted by Lieutenant James Grant on 9 December 1800 from the survey brig HMS Lady Nelson and named after "Captain Moncur of the Royal navy".^[2]

Fauna

Recorded breeding seabird and wader species include little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, fairy prion, common diving-petrel, Pacific gull, silver gull and sooty oystercatcher.^[1] The island is part of the Wilsons Promontory Islands Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance for breeding seabirds.^[3] Reptiles present include the metallic skink, Bougainville's skink and White's skink.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c 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
^ Grant, James (1803). The narrative of a voyage of discovery, performed in His Majesty's vessel the Lady Nelson, of sixty tons burthen: with sliding keels, in the years 1800, 1801, and 1802, to New South Wales. Printed by C. Roworth for T. Egerton. p. 77. ISBN 978-0-7243-0036-5. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
^ "IBA: Wilsons Promontory Islands". Birdata. Birds Australia. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-11-29.

Islands and islets of Tasmania, Australia

Islands located in the Bass Strait

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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
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