To the west of Flinders Island, Mount Chappell Island was dedicated as an Indigenous Protected Area in 2000. The 327 hectare island also has important links to the Tasmanian Aboriginal community.
Managed by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre Rangers, work continues to:
- protect the island’s mutton bird rookeries
- maintain existing buildings on the island so that community members have a place to stay
- revegetate the island with native plants
- control weeds such as boxthorn, mirror bush and sea spurge.
Mount Chappell Island's mutton bird chicks help feed the largest tiger snakes in Australia. The rangers know many of the Cape Barren tiger snakes by name. They have a growing knowledge of the island's mutton birding history as they uncover signs of their ancestors.
State: Tas
Administration Organisation
Tasmanian Aboriginal Corporation