Mewstone is an unpopulated island, composed of muscovite granite, located close to the south coast of Tasmania, Australia. The 13.1-hectare (32-acre) island has steep cliffs and a small flat summit and is part of the Pedra Branca group, lying 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) southeast of Maatsuyker Island, and 22 kilometres (14 mi) off the south coast of Tasmania. Mewstone comprises part of the Southwest National Park and the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Site.[1][2]
The highest point of the island is approximately 150 metres (490 ft) above sea level.[2] Mewstone has abundant bird life and has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports over 1% of the world populations of shy albatrosses and fairy prions.[3]
^ ab"Small Southern Islands Conservation Management Statement 2002" (PDF). Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service. 2002. p. 14. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 August 2006. Retrieved 20 July 2006.
^ abBrothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; Halley, Vanessa (2001). Tasmania's Offshore Islands: seabirds and other natural features. Hobart: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. ISBN 0-7246-4816-X.
^"IBA: Mewstone". Birdata. Birds Australia. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 15 August 2011.
Mewstone is an unpopulated island, composed of muscovite granite, located close to the south coast of Tasmania, Australia. The 13.1-hectare (32-acre) island...
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the group. These include Breaksea Islands, Eddystone, Kathleen Island, Mewstone, Pedra Branca, Shanks Islands and Trumpeter Islets. Several of these are...
Ireland. In Great Britain only recorded from the south-west including the Mewstone near Plymouth and North Cornwall. Also known from Galway Bay on the west...
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remained elusive until it was rediscovered through dredging off Plymouth's Mewstone Grounds in 1956. Subsequent sightings occurred in Roscoff and, notably...
Devon, to Portland, Dorset. Jeane Adelle France The ship was lost off the Mewstone with the loss of all but three of her crew. She was on a voyage from Oporto...
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