Dover Island

Dover Island, the third largest island in the Kent Group, is a densely vegetated and unpopulated 295-hectare granite island with steep slopes, located in the Bass Strait, lying off the north-east coast of Tasmania, between the Furneaux Group and Wilsons Promontory in Victoria, Australia.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kent Group National Park and Erith Island.

Kent Group National Park

Photo: Terrafirma123, CC BY 3.0.

Kent Group National Park is the northernmost national park in Tasmania, part of the Bass Strait Islands around halfway between mainland Australia and the mainland of Tasmania, and an enclave within the federally managed Beagle Marine Park.

Erith Island

Island

Erith Island, the second largest island in the Kent Group, is a densely vegetated and unpopulated 323-hectare granite island with steep slopes, located in the Bass Strait, lying off the north-east coast of Tasmania, between the Furneaux Group and Wilsons Promontory in Victoria, Australia.

Dover Island

Type: Island
Description: island in Tasmania, Australia
Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
Location: Tasmania, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-39.47175° or 39° 28′ 18″ south

Longitude

147.27829° or 147° 16′ 42″ east

Elevation

57 metres (187 feet)

Open location code

4RG9G7HH+78

OpenStreetMap ID

way 379801278

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=coastline

OpenStreetMap feature

place=island

GeoNames ID

2168447

Wikidata ID

Q5302505

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Satellite Map

Discover Dover Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From Asturian to Turkish—“Dover Island” goes by many names.

Asturian: “Islla Dover (Tasmania)”
Asturian: “Islla Dover”
Cebuano: “Dover Island (pulo sa Awstralya)”
Cebuano: “Dover Island”
Dutch: “Dover Island”
Esperanto: “Doverinsulo”
Swedish: “Dover Island, Tasmanien”
Swedish: “Dover Island”
Turkish: “Dover Adası”
Turkish: “Dover Island”

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