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Night Island is a small granite island, with an area of 2.59 ha, is part of the Preservation Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait south of Cape Barren Island in the Furneaux Group, Tasmania, Australia. It is a Conservation Area.〔 The island has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it holds over 1% of the world population of black-faced cormorants. ==Fauna== As well as up to 138 pairs of black-faced cormorants, recorded breeding seabird and wader species include little penguin, Pacific gull and sooty oystercatcher.〔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〕 Other islands in the Preservation Group with breeding seabirds include:〔 * Preservation Island * Preservation Islets * Rum Island 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Night Island (Tasmania)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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