page_title: Robbins Island (Tasmania)
section_title: Topography and fauna
hierarchical_section_title: Robbins Island (Tasmania) / Topography and fauna
caption_attribution_description: English: Sign at crossing to Robbins Island, on Tasmanian mainland, north of Montagu.
context_page_description: The Robbins Island is a 9,900-hectare island located in Bass Strait, lying off the northwest coast of Tasmania, Australia. The island, separated from the Tasmanian mainland by a highly tidal area known as Robbins Passage, lies south to the adjacent Walker Island.
  Robbins Islands is the seventh largest island of Tasmania and is the largest freehold island in Tasmania. Over the years Robbins Island has changed ownership and to this day remains privately owned.
context_section_description: The island has a number of topographical features which include:
  Cape Elie the most easterly point of the island.
  Guyton Point, located on  northeastern area of the island.
  Mosquito Inlet is an estuary northwest of the island, having an area of 674 hectares (1,670 acres), where four bird species, the eastern curlew, masked lapwing, pied oystercatcher and sooty oystercatcher roost.
  Five Islets, located northwest of the island, where the fairy tern and pied oystercatcher permanently nest, along with migratory birds great knot, red knot, bar-tailed godwit, grey plover, lesser sand plover, common greenshank, red-necked stint, Terek sandpiper and ruddy turnstone can be found.
  Bird Point, also located northwest of Robbins Island where a number of birds species permanently roost in the area. They include: fairy terns, little terns, Caspian terns, crested terns, pied oystercatchers and sooty oystercatchers. Many species of migratory birds come to nest here and include grey-tailed tattlers, great knots, lesser sand plovers, masked lapwings, Pacific golden plovers, red knots, red-capped plovers, red-necked stints, ruddy turnstones, sanderlings, waders, double-banded plovers, curlew sandpipers, common greenshanks, bar-tailed godwit and hooded plovers.
caption: Sign at crossing to Robbins Island from Tasmanian mainland.
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