Woody Island is a small, uninhabited island lying in
Pitt Water
Pitt most commonly refers to:
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, Tasmania, Australia. It is part of the
Sloping Island Group
The Sloping Island Group is a group of small islands in south-eastern Tasmania in Australia.
They lie close to the south-eastern coast of Tasmania around the Tasman Peninsula, Tasman and Forestier Peninsulas.Brothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pr ...
, lying close to the south-eastern coast of
Tasmania
Tasmania (; palawa kani: ''Lutruwita'') is an island States and territories of Australia, state of Australia. It is located to the south of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The sta ...
around the
Tasman and
Forestier Peninsula
The Forestier Peninsula is a peninsula located in south-east Tasmania, Australia, approximately by the Arthur Highway, south-east of Hobart. The peninsula is connected to mainland Tasmania at East Bay Neck, near the town of at its northern e ...
s.
[Brothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; & Halley, Vanessa. (2001). ''Tasmania’s Offshore Islands: seabirds and other natural features''. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery: Hobart. p.606.] The island is approximately 28.3 hectares in size, with cliffs of up to 15 metres in height.
The island is a popular boating and recreation site.
Between the late 1980s and 1990, introduced rabbits were a concern on the island, however they were eradicated with the laying of baits in 1990 and no evidence of reintroduction appeared in a 2001 survey. The same survey noted
boxthorn
''Lycium'' is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, Solanaceae. The genus has a disjunct distribution around the globe, with species occurring on most continents in temperate and subtropical regions. South America has the most spec ...
,
blackberry
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, and
mirror bush and historically
Monterey pine
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on the island and recommended periodic weeding to avoid the island being overrun by bird-introduced vegetation.
See also
*
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. There are more than 1000 smaller islands which have a combined area of , maki ...
References
Sloping Island Group
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