Bishop and Clerk Islets

The Bishop and Clerk Islets are a roughly 60 hectare group of small islands, rocks, and reefs in the southwestern Pacific Ocean about 33 kilometers south of Macquarie Island, administered as part of Tasmania, Australia. Bishop Islet, the largest at about 3 hectares, rises to 45 meters and consists mostly of bare rock with only thin patches of soil, and the group also includes 24 smaller islets. As the southernmost land of Australia and Tasmania outside Antarctic territory, the islets are uninhabited, free of introduced species, and part of the Macquarie Island UNESCO World Heritage Site listed in 1997; they support nesting Macquarie shags and, since 1965, a colony of black-browed albatrosses, though only three landings have ever been documented there.