Fisher Island

Fisher Island is a small granite island, with an area of 0.9 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Great Dog Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait between Flinders and Cape Barren Islands in the Furneaux Group.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Little Green Island and Great Dog Island.

Little Green Island

Islet

Little Green Island is a granite island, with an area of 87 hectares, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Great Dog Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait between Flinders and Cape Barren Islands in the Furneaux Group.

Great Dog Island

Island

Photo: NASA, Public domain.

The Great Dog Island, also known as Big Dog Island, and part of the Great Dog Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 354-hectare granite island, located in Bass Strait, lying south of the Flinders Island and north of the Cape Barren Island, in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia. Great Dog Island is situated 3½ km south of Fisher Island.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lady Barron.

Lady Barron

Village

Photo: JJ Harrison, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Lady Barron is a small settlement on the southern end of Flinders Island, in the local government area of Flinders in the North-east region of Tasmania.

Fisher Island

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

-40.21696° or 40° 13′ 1″ south

Longitude

148.23914° or 148° 14′ 21″ east

Elevation

1 metre (3 feet)

Open location code

4RFCQ6MQ+6M

OpenStreetMap ID

way 884012536

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=coastline

OpenStreetMap feature

place=islet

GeoNames ID

8179536

Wikidata ID

Q5454811

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Satellite Map

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

In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Turkish—“Fisher Island” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Fisher Island”
Swedish: “Fisher Island”
Turkish: “Fisher Adası (II)”
Turkish: “Fisher Island”

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Cooma and Bootjack Flats.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Fisher Reef and Lady Barron Tennis Club.

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