Big Dog Island is located to the south of Flinders Island. It was dedicated as an Indigenous Protected Area in 2009.
Big Dog Island continues to be an important mutton-birding island for Aboriginal people.
The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre Rangers manage the island by:
- maintaining healthy tussock rookeries
- removing mirror bush
- monitoring mutton birds
- looking after mutton bird rookeries.
State: Tas
Administration Organisation
Tasmanian Aboriginal Corporation