Lachlan Island

This article is about the Island in Tasmania. For the Island in Western Australia, see Lachlan Island (Western Australia).

Lachlan Island

Lachlan Island Location in Tasmania
Geography
Location	East Coast Tasmania
Coordinates
Archipelago	Maria Island Group
Adjacent bodies of water	Mercury Passage
Area
Country
Australia
State	Tasmania
Additional information
Time zone	AEST (UTC+10)
• Summer (DST)	AEDT (UTC+11)

The Lachlan Island, part of the Maria Island Group, is an island with an area of about 2.5 hectares (6 acres) lying close to the south-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia. The island is located near the Freycinet Peninsula, situated midway between Maria Island and the Tasmanian mainland.

Fauna

Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, kelp gull, sooty oystercatcher and Caspian tern. Rabbits were introduced in the early 20th century and were eventually eradicated in the 1990s.

See also

• List of islands of Tasmania
• Tasmania's offshore islands