هرم باس Bass Pyramid
الاسم الأصلي: Bass Pyramid | |
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  هرم باس موقع هرم باس في مضيق باس | |
| الجغرافيا | |
| الموقع | مضيق باس |
| الإحداثيات | 39°49′12″S 147°14′24″E / 39.82000°S 147.24000°E |
| الأرخبيل | مجموعة فورنو |
| المساحة | 21,600 m2 (233,000 sq ft) |
| الطول | 220 km (137 mi) |
| العرض | 140 km (87 mi) |
| الإدارة | |
Australia | |
| الولاية | تازمانيا |
| السكان | |
| التعداد | غير مأهولة |
The Bass Pyramid, part of the Furneaux Group, is a small, two sectioned oval, steep-sided 100-square-metre (1,100 sq ft) unpopulated granite island, located in Bass Strait, lying north of the Flinders Island and south of the Kent Group, in Tasmania, Australia.[1] A rock bridge connects the two sections.
The island was used intermittently from the 1940s until 1988 as a bombing and shelling target by the Australian airforce and navy. On 5 April 1978 the island was proclaimed part of a nature reserve.
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species include fairy prion, common diving-petrel, Pacific gull, silver gull, Australasian gannet and sooty oystercatcher. It is also a haul-out site for Australian fur seals.[2] The seals were hunted here in the 19th century.[3] The dangers of the site resulted in at least three sealers losing their lives here.[4]
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المراجع
- ^ قالب:Gazetteer of Australia
- ^ Brothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; & Halley, Vanessa. (2001). Tasmania’s Offshore Islands: seabirds and other natural features. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery: Hobart. ISBN 0-7246-4816-X
- ^ Parry Kostoglou (1996), Sealing in Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service, p.117-8.
- ^ Kostoglou, p.118.
