Penguin Island (Tasmania)
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Penguin Island is a small island, with an area of 2.73 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of the North Coast Group, lying in southern Bass Strait near Devonport in north-west Tasmania. It is part of the Narawntapu National Park. An estimated 100 pairs of Little Penguins breed on the island. Bass Strait is a sea strait separating Tasmania from the south of the Australian mainland, specifically the state of Victoria.The strait was named after George Bass after he and Matthew Flinders passed through it while circumnavigating Van Diemen's Land (now named Tasmania) in the Norfolk in 1798…mehr

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Penguin Island is a small island, with an area of 2.73 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of the North Coast Group, lying in southern Bass Strait near Devonport in north-west Tasmania. It is part of the Narawntapu National Park. An estimated 100 pairs of Little Penguins breed on the island. Bass Strait is a sea strait separating Tasmania from the south of the Australian mainland, specifically the state of Victoria.The strait was named after George Bass after he and Matthew Flinders passed through it while circumnavigating Van Diemen's Land (now named Tasmania) in the Norfolk in 1798 99. At Flinders' recommendation the Governor of New South Wales, John Hunter, in 1800 named the stretch of water between the mainland and Van Diemen's Land "Basses Strait".