| 词条 | Mewstone |
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| name = Mewstone | native_name = | native_name_link = | sobriquet = Mewstone Island; The Mewstone | image_name = Shy albatross in flight.jpg | image_caption = Mewstone is an important breeding site for shy albatrosses | image_size = 280 | image_alt = Shy albatross in flight | map = Australia Tasmania | map_alt = | map_width = 280 | map_caption = Location off the south coast of Tasmania | map_relief = 1 | label = Mewstone | label_position = left | etymology = Great Mewstone, an island near Plymouth, United Kingdom | location = South coast Tasmania | coordinates = {{coord|43|44|17|S|146|22|16|E|display=inline,title}} | archipelago = Pedra Branca | waterbody = Southern Ocean | total_islands = | major_islands = | area_ha = 13.1 | area_footnotes = [1] | rank = | length_km = | width_km = | coastline_km = | elevation_m = 150 | highest_mount = | Country_heading = | country = Australia | country_admin_divisions_title = State | country_admin_divisions = Tasmania | country_admin_divisions_title_1 = Region | country_admin_divisions_1 = South coast | country_admin_divisions_title_2 = | country_admin_divisions_2 = | population = Unpopulated | website = | additional_info = }}Mewstone is an unpopulated island, composed of muscovite granite, located close to the south coast of Tasmania, Australia. The {{convert|13.1|ha|adj=on}} island has steep cliffs and a small flat summit and is part of the Pedra Branca group, lying {{convert|12|km}} southeast of Maatsuyker Island, and {{convert|22|km}} 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 {{convert|150|m}} 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] EtymologyIn 1642 it was described by Abel Tasman, who said it "resembles a lion".[4] In 1773 it was named by Tobias Furneaux[5] in {{HMS|Adventure|1771|6}}. It is likely that Mewstone was named after the Great Mewstone, an island about {{convert|8|km}} south-southeast of Furneaux's birthplace in Plymouth, United Kingdom. The Great Mewstone got its name from the old English name for the herring gull; mew.[6] Although it is sometimes referred to as Mewstone Island or The Mewstone, its official name is simply Mewstone.[7] Flora and faunaThere is very little flora due to the rocky nature of the island. What little plant life there is grows in crevices in the rocks where soil has accumulated.[8] Recorded breeding seabirds include fairy prion (20,000 pairs), silver gull, black-faced cormorant and shy albatross (7,500 pairs). Mewstone is the largest of only three shy albatross breeding colonies in the world, the other two being Albatross Island and Pedra Branca.[1] Australian fur seals haul-out on small ledges. The Tasmanian tree skink is also present.[2] See also{{stack|{{portal|Tasmania|Islands}}}}
References1. ^1 2 {{cite web |title=Small Southern Islands Conservation Management Statement 2002 |url=http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/IslandCare/southern_islands.pdf |year=2002 |publisher=Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service |page=14 |accessdate=20 July 2006 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060822190600/http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/IslandCare/southern_islands.pdf |archivedate=22 August 2006}} 2. ^1 2 {{cite book |author1=Brothers, Nigel |author2=Pemberton, David |author3=Pryor, Helen |author4=Halley, Vanessa |date=2001 |title=Tasmania’s Offshore Islands: seabirds and other natural features |publisher=Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery |location=Hobart |isbn=0-7246-4816-X }} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.birdata.com.au/iba.vm |title=IBA: Mewstone |accessdate=15 August 2011 |work=Birdata |first= |last= |publisher=Birds Australia |date= |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706102341/http://www.birdata.com.au/iba.vm |archivedate=6 July 2011 |df= }} 4. ^{{cite web|editor=Heeres, J. E. |authorlink= | year=2006 | url=http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600571h.html |title=Abel Janszoon Tasman's Journal of his Discovery of Van Diemen's Land and New Zealand in 1642 with Documents Relating to his Exploration of Australia in 1644...to which are added his Life and Labours, 1898 |work=|pages= |publisher=Gutenberg of Australia | language= |accessdate=9 July 2006 }} 5. ^{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|last= Sprod|first= Dan|authorlink=|year=2005|id=AS10174b|title= Furneaux, Tobias (1735 - 1781) |accessdate=5 May 2008 }} 6. ^{{cite web|last= |first= |authorlink= | date= | url=http://www.southdevonaonb.org.uk/explore/wembury/the-great-mewstone |title=The Great Mewstone|format= |work= |pages= |publisher=South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty| doi= |accessdate=13 June 2015 }} 7. ^{{cite web|last=|first=|authorlink=|date=|url=http://www.ga.gov.au/bin/gazm01?placename=mewstone&placetype=0&state=TAS|title=Place Name Search for Mewstone, Tasmania|format=|work=|pages=|publisher=Geoscience Australia|doi=|accessdate=24 July 2006|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001000116/http://www.ga.gov.au/bin/gazm01?placename=mewstone&placetype=0&state=TAS|archivedate=1 October 2007|df=dmy-all}} 8. ^{{cite book|last=White |first=Gary |title=Islands of South-West Tasmania|publisher=self-published|location=Sydney |year=1980| isbn=0-9594866-0-7}} External links
4 : Islands of South West Tasmania|Protected areas of Tasmania|South West Tasmania|Important Bird Areas of Tasmania |
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