Anderson Island

#2632 among destinations in Australia

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The Anderson Island, also known as Woody Island, part of the Tin Kettle Island Group of the Furneaux Group, is a 166-hectare granite island, located in Bass Strait, lying northeast of Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia. Anderson Island lies between Flinders and Cape Barren Islands and is partly a pastoral lease used for grazing sheep and cattle. The island is joined at low tide to nearby Little Anderson and Tin Kettle Islands by extensive intertidal mudflats. The island is supposed to be named after John Anderson, a sealer living on the island by 1842. ()

Area: 64.09 mi²Archipelago: Furneaux GroupCoordinates: 40°18'15"S, 148°6'0"E

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TasmaniaAustralia

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Anderson Island – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Mount Munro, Little Dog Island, Doughboy Island, Tin Kettle Island.

4.7 miS
Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Munro, Forsyth Island
119 min walk • Mount Munro is, at 715 metres, the highest point on Cape Barren Island in Bass Strait, Tasmania, Australia. It was probably named after James Munro, a former convict who had been a sealer and beachcomber in Bass Strait from the early 1820s and lived for more than twenty years on nearby Preservation Island, where he had several "wives".
6.4 miNE
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Little Dog Island
163 min walk • Little Dog Island is a square, flat granite island, with an area of 83 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.
3.7 miSW
Island
Doughboy Island
94 min walk • The Doughboy Island, part of the Tin Kettle Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 30-hectare unpopulated mainly granite island, located in Bass Strait, lying west of the Flinders and Cape Barren islands, Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia.
1.9 miE
Island
Tin Kettle Island
48 min walk • Tin Kettle Island is a long, sandy island, with an area of 176 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Tin Kettle Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait between Flinders and Cape Barren Islands in the Furneaux Group.
5.4 miN
National park
Strzelecki National Park
139 min walk • Strzelecki National Park is a national park on Flinders Island, Tasmania, 307 km north of Hobart. The park is home to abundant wildlife including more than one hundred bird species, wombats, and potoroos.

Anderson Island

Facts and practical information

Anderson Island – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Mount Munro, Forsyth Island

Little Dog Island

Doughboy Island

Tin Kettle Island

Strzelecki National Park