The Taillefer Rocks, part of the
Schouten Island
Schouten Island (formerly Schouten's Isle), part of the Schouten Island Group, is an island with an area of approximately lying close to the eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia, located south of the Freycinet Peninsula and is a part of Fre ...
Group, are three small, rugged,
granite
Granite () is a coarse-grained ( phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies under ...
island
An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...
s, with a combined area of approximately lying close to the eastern coast of
Tasmania
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, Australia, near the
Freycinet Peninsula
The Freycinet Peninsula is a large peninsula located on the eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia. The peninsula is located north of Schouten Island and is contained within the Freycinet National Park.
The locality of Freycinet is in the local go ...
and lies within the
Freycinet National Park.
Flora and fauna
This is one of the few islands where
Oyster Bay pines occur.
Recorded breeding
seabird
Seabirds (also known as marine birds) are birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment. While seabirds vary greatly in lifestyle, behaviour and physiology, they often exhibit striking convergent evolution, as the same enviro ...
species are
little penguin,
short-tailed shearwater,
fairy prion
The fairy prion (''Pachyptila turtur'') is a small seabird with the standard prion plumage of blue-grey upperparts with a prominent dark "M" marking and white underneath. The sexes are alike. This is a small prion of the low subantarctic and sub ...
and
common diving petrel.
Reptiles present include the
metallic skink
:''"Metallic skink" may also refer to the garden skink ( Lampropholis delicata)''.
''Carinascincus metallicus'', the metallic cool-skink or metallic skink is a species of skink in the family Scincidae. It is endemic to Australia, found in sout ...
,
White's skink
White's skink (''Liopholis whitii)'', also known commonly as White's rock skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Australia.
Etymology
The specific name, ''whitii'', is in honour of Irish surgeon and ...
,
spotted skink and
mountain dragon
''Rankinia'' is a genus of small agamid reptiles. As currently delineated, it is monotypic, containing only ''Rankinia diemensis'' (Gray, 1841), also known as the mountain heath dragon or mountain dragon. It is endemic to Australia.
Distribution ...
.
Australian fur seals
haul-out there in small numbers.
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See also
*Protected areas of Tasmania
Protected areas of Tasmania consist of protected areas located within Tasmania and its immediate onshore waters, including Macquarie Island. It includes areas of crown land (withheld land) managed by Tasmanian Government agencies as well as pr ...
*List of islands of Tasmania
Tasmania is the smallest and southernmost state of Australia. The Tasmanian mainland itself is an island, with an area of - 94.1% of the total land area of the state. The other islands have a combined area of , for a cumulative total of 99.75% o ...
References
Islands of Tasmania
East Coast Tasmania
Protected areas of Tasmania
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