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Sugarloaf Rock in the Curtis Group of Islands in Bass Strait.
I took this photo from about 500ft from a Piper Chieftain whilst conducting aerial survey work for Tasmania Police looking for fishing boats in protected marine areas.
Sugarloaf Rock is a small granite island, with an area of 1.07 ha. It is part of Tasmania’s Curtis Group, lying in northern Bass Strait between the Furneaux Group and Wilsons Promontory in Victoria.
The rest of the Curtis Group includes Curtis Island, Cone Islet and Devils Tower. The islands/rocks are in a nature reserve and have been identified as an Important Bird Area because it supports up to 390,000 breeding pairs of Short-tailed Shearwaters or Tasmanian Muttonbirds. As well as the shearwaters, recorded breeding seabird and wader species include Little Penguin, Fairy Prion, Pacific Gull and Sooty Oystercatcher. Reptiles present include White-lipped Snake, Bougainville's Skink, White's Skink and Metallic Skink.
I took this photo from about 500ft from a Piper Chieftain whilst conducting aerial survey work for Tasmania Police looking for fishing boats in protected marine areas.
Sugarloaf Rock is a small granite island, with an area of 1.07 ha. It is part of Tasmania’s Curtis Group, lying in northern Bass Strait between the Furneaux Group and Wilsons Promontory in Victoria.
The rest of the Curtis Group includes Curtis Island, Cone Islet and Devils Tower. The islands/rocks are in a nature reserve and have been identified as an Important Bird Area because it supports up to 390,000 breeding pairs of Short-tailed Shearwaters or Tasmanian Muttonbirds. As well as the shearwaters, recorded breeding seabird and wader species include Little Penguin, Fairy Prion, Pacific Gull and Sooty Oystercatcher. Reptiles present include White-lipped Snake, Bougainville's Skink, White's Skink and Metallic Skink.
