# Nares Rocks

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'''Nares Rocks''' are a group of three rocks with a total area of 0.76 [ha](/source/hectare) in [Bass Strait](/source/Bass_Strait), part of [Tasmania](/source/Tasmania)’s [Hunter Island Group](/source/Hunter_Island_Group) and lie between north-west Tasmania and [King Island](/source/King_Island_(Tasmania)).  They are steep and largely bare of vegetation.

==Fauna==
Breeding [seabird](/source/seabird)s and [shorebird](/source/shorebird)s include [common diving-petrel](/source/common_diving-petrel), [Pacific gull](/source/Pacific_gull), [silver gull](/source/silver_gull), [sooty oystercatcher](/source/sooty_oystercatcher) and [black-faced cormorant](/source/black-faced_cormorant).<ref name=Brothers2001>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}}</ref>

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