Tea Island is one of the
Falkland Islands
The Falkland Islands (; ), commonly referred to as The Falklands, is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and from Cape Dub ...
. It is beside
Staats Island
Staats Island is an uninhabited island of the Beaver Island Group in the Falkland Islands. It lies between Beaver Island and Weddell Island, parallel to Tea Island and is in area.
Wildlife
The island is known for its Patagonian foxes and g ...
, and is just to the south west of
Weddell Island
Weddell Island () is one of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, lying off the southwest extremity of West Falkland. It is situated west-northwest of South Georgia Island, north of Livingston Island, northeast of Cape Horn, northeast ...
. It is shaped like an upside down "h". It has some of the few examples of
Felton's Flower, a rare endemic Falkland species.
It was also a site where the
Patagonian fox was introduced in the early 1930s, along with other islands in the Weddell group, such as Staats and
Beaver Island. In 2009, Tea Island became the first site of multispecies eradication of both Patagonian foxes and
Norway rats
The brown rat (''Rattus norvegicus''), also known as the common rat, street rat, sewer rat, wharf rat, Hanover rat, Norway rat and Norwegian rat, is a widespread species of common rat. One of the largest Muroidea, muroids, it is a brown or grey ...
, resulting in significant increases in bird populations.
References
Islands of the Falkland Islands
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