Clarke Island (Tasmania)
Native name: Lungtalanana | |
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Lying below Flinders Island and Cape Barren Island is Clarke Island. The land mass at the bottom left corner is Tasmania. | |
Clarke Island (Tasmania) | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Bass Strait |
| Coordinates | 40°32′06″S 148°10′12″E / 40.535°S 148.170°E |
| Archipelago | Furneaux Group |
| Area | 82 km2 (32 sq mi) |
| Area rank | 8th in Tasmania |
| Highest elevation | 206 m (676 ft) |
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Australia | |
| State | Tasmania |
The Clarke Island, also known by its Indigenous name of Lungtalanana (from the palawa kani language), part of the Furneaux Group, is an 82-square-kilometre (32 sq mi) island in Bass Strait, south of Cape Barren Island (palawa kani: Truwana), about 24 kilometres (15 mi) off the northeast coast of Tasmania, Australia. Banks Strait separates the island from Cape Portland on the mainland. Clarke Island is the third-largest island in the Furneaux Group, and Tasmania's eighth largest island.
Off its west coast lies the shipwreck of HMS Litherland, which sank in 1853 and was discovered in 1983.