Stack Island

{{Short description|Island in Tasmania, Australia}} {{For|the island in the US|Stack Island (Mississippi River)}} {{Use Australian English|date=May 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} thumb|right|250px|The island is a breeding site for crested terns '''Stack Island''' is an island game reserve, with an area of 23.7 ha and a high point 54 m above sea-level, in Bass Strait, south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Hunter Island Group which lies between north-west Tasmania and King Island.<ref name=Brothers2001/>

==Fauna== The island forms part of the Hunter Island Group Important Bird Area.<ref>BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Hunter Island Group. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 2011-07-09.</ref> Breeding seabirds and shorebirds include little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher, black-faced cormorant, crested tern and fairy tern. Mammals include small numbers of rabbits and rakali.<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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Category:North West Tasmania Category:Important Bird Areas of Tasmania Category:Islands of Bass Strait