page_title: Ninth Island
section_title: Fauna
hierarchical_section_title: Ninth Island / Fauna
caption_attribution_description: Little Penguin (Eudyptula minor) family exiting burrow, Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia
context_page_description: The Ninth Island, part of the Waterhouse Island Group, is a 32-hectare uninhabited granite island situated in Bass Strait, lying close to the north-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia. In November 2018, it was listed for sale for the fourth time, at $1.98 million. The property for sale is a landlocked title within a conservation covenant, preventing access to the island by any means except helicopter.
context_section_description: As well as the black-faced cormorants, recorded breeding seabirds and waders include the little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, common diving-petrel, white-faced storm-petrel, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher and crested tern.  Cape Barren geese also breed there, European rabbits have been introduced and the southern grass skink is present.
  The island is approximately 1.3 kilometres (0.81 mi) long and 550 metres (1,800 ft) wide, lying 11.7 kilometres (7.3 mi) from the north-eastern coast of Tasmania.  It is partly privately owned and has been badly affected in the past by grazing, frequent fires and, in July 1995, by the MV Iron Baron oil spill which killed between 2000 and 6000 little penguins. The island forms part of the Ninth and Little Waterhouse Islands Important Bird Area (IBA), so identified by BirdLife International because it holds over 1% of the world population of black-faced cormorants.
caption: The island is home to thousands of little penguins.
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