List of islands of Australia

This is a list of selected Australian islands grouped by State or Territory.

Australia has 8,222 islands within its maritime borders.^[1]

Largest islands

The islands larger than 1,000 square kilometres (390 sq mi) are:^[2]^[3]

Tasmania (Tas) 64,519 square kilometres (24,911 sq mi);
Melville Island, Northern Territory (NT), 5,786 square kilometres (2,234 sq mi);
Kangaroo Island, South Australia (SA), 4,416 square kilometres (1,705 sq mi);
Groote Eylandt (NT), 2,285 square kilometres (882 sq mi);
Bathurst Island (NT), 1,693 square kilometres (654 sq mi);
Fraser Island, Queensland (Qld), 1,653 square kilometres (638 sq mi);
Flinders Island (Tas), 1,359 square kilometres (525 sq mi);
King Island (Tas), 1,091 square kilometres (421 sq mi); and
Mornington Island (Qld), 1,002 square kilometres (387 sq mi).

New South Wales

Bird Island, 1996

Cockatoo Island, the largest island in Sydney Harbour, 2008

Lord Howe Island, 2006

Bare Island, near the north headland of Botany Bay
Bird Island, located near Budgewoi, 1.4 kilometres (0.87 mi) east of the Central Coast
Boondelbah Island, at the mouth of Port Stephens
Broughton Island, located north of Port Stephens
Broulee Island, located off the coast at Broulee
Cabbage Tree Island, at the mouth of Port Stephens
Chatsworth Island, in the Clarence River
Clark Island, in Sydney Harbour
Cockatoo Island, in Sydney Harbour, originally used as a prison and later developed as a shipyard
Cook Island, located near Tweed Heads
Dangar Island, a small forested island in the Hawkesbury River
Dumaresq Island, a small island in the Manning River downstream of Taree
Darling Island, a former island subsequently bridged by land, in Sydney Harbour
Esk Island, in the north arm of the Clarence River
Fatima Island, a tidal island of the Cook's River
Fort Denison, also known as Pinchgut
Five Islands Nature Reserve, a group of islands off the coast near Wollongong
Garden Island (no longer an island)
Glebe Island (no longer an island)
Goat Island, a rocky island in Sydney Harbour
Goodwood Island
Green Island, a small island north of Smoky Cape
Harwood Island, in the Clarence River
Joass Island, located in Little Swan Bay, Port Stephens
Lion Island, at the entrance to the Hawkesbury River
Long Island, in the Hawkesbury River
Lord Howe Island, a small island in the Tasman Sea, 600 kilometres (370 mi) east of the Australian mainland
- Ball's Pyramid
- Admiralty Group
Milson Island, in the Hawkesbury River
Montague Island, 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) east of Narooma on the south coast
Moon Island, 1 km off Swansea Heads
Muttonbird Island, off Coffs Harbour
Oxley Island
Pinchgut - see Fort Denison, a former penal site and defensive facility in Sydney Harbour
Pulbah Island, the largest island in Lake Macquarie
Rodd Island, a small island in the Parramatta River
Scotland Island, in the north of Sydney
Shark Island, in Sydney Harbour
Snapper Island, in Sydney Harbour
Spectacle Island, in the Hawkesbury River
Spectacle Island, in Sydney Harbour
Solitary Islands
Wasp Island, the only island in Durras Inlet near Batemans Bay^[4]
Wedding Cake Island, a small island of the coast of Coogee
Windang Island, a small island at the entrance to Lake Illawarra
Woodford Island, in the Clarence River on the far north coast

Northern Territory

Bathurst Island
Bickerton Island
Crocodile Islands
Croker Island
East Woody Island
Elcho Island
Goulburn Islands
Groote Eylandt - The name is an archaic spelling of the Dutch words for "Big Island" - Australia's 4th largest island
Howard Island
Martjanba Island
Melville Island, the second largest island in Australia
Quail Island
Sir Edward Pellew Group
Tiwi Islands
Vanderlin Island
Wessel Islands

Queensland

Fraser Island, 2006

Great Keppel Island, 2007

Whitehaven Beach, Whitsunday Island, 2008

Acheron Island
Agnes Island
Albino Rock
Aplin Islet
Arnold Islets
Baird Island
Barber Island
Barrow Island
Bedarra Island
Beesley Island
Bird Islands
Bishop Island^[5]
Bootie Island
Bountiful Islands
Bowden Island
Boyne Island
Brampton Island
Bribie Island
Brisk Island
Brook Islands, three islands: North, Tween and Middle.
Bourke Isles
Bushy Island
Bushy Islet
Cholmondeley Islet
Clack Island
Clerke Island
Coconut Island
Coochiemudlo Island
Crab Island
Cordelia Rocks
Coquet Island
Curacoa Island
Denham Island
Douglas Islet
Duncan Islands
Dunk Island
Eagle Island
Ellis Island
Ephraim Island
Esk Island
Eclipse Island
Fantome Island
Falcon Island
Fisher Island
Fisherman Island (no longer an island - Port of Brisbane wharves construction in the mouth of the Brisbane River extended over it)
Fitzroy Island
Fly Island
Frankland Islands
- Russell Island
Fraser Island, the largest sand island in the world
Goold Island
Gore Island
Great Keppel Island
Great Palm Island
Green Island
Haggerston Island
Hales Island
Hannibal Islands
Harvey Island
Heron Island
High Island
Hinchinbrook Island
Horseshoe Island
Houghton Island
Hudson Island
Jessie Island
Kangaroo Island
Kent Island
King Island
Kumboola Island
Lady Elliot Island
Lady Musgrave Island
Leggatt Island
Lindquist Island
Lizard Island
Lloyd Island
Low Island
Low Wooded Island
Mabel Island
Makepeace Island
Magnetic Island
Milman Islet
Moreton Island
Mornington Island
Morris Island
Mudjimba Island
Murdock Island
Nigger Head
Newton Island
Nob Island
Noble Island
Normanby Island
North Direction Island
North Stradbroke Island
Northumberland Islands
Orpheus Island
Paddy Island
Palfrey Island
Peel Island
Pelorus Island
Pentecost Island
Percy Island
Perry Island
Pigeon Island
Pincushion Island
Pipon Island
Prince of Wales Island
Pumpkin Island
Raine Island
Restoration Island
Rocky Island
Rocky Point Island
Rodney Island
Round Island
St Helena Island
Shaw Island
Sherrard Island
Sir Charles Hardy Islands
The Sisters
Sisters Islands
Snapper Island
South Direction Island
South Stradbroke Island
Southern Moreton Bay Islands
- Russell Island
- Macleay Island
- Perulpa Island (Connected to Macleay Island by causeway)
- Lamb Island
- Karragarra Island
Saibai Island, in the Torres Strait
Stephens Island
Struck Island
Sunday Island
Sunter Island
Sweers Island
Talbot Islands
Tern Island
Thomson Islet
Thorpe Island
Three Islands
The Three Sisters
- Sue Islet
Torres Strait Islands
Trochus Island
Turtle Group
Watson Island
Wellesley Islands
Wheeler Island
Whitsunday Islands
- Daydream Island
- Dent Island
- Hamilton Island
- Hayman Island
- Hook Island
- Keswick Island
- Lindeman Island
- Long Island
- South Molle Island
- Whitsunday Island
Wilson Island

Woody Island

South Australia

Remarkable Rocks on Kangaroo Island, 2007

Greenly Island; a distant view taken from the sea (circa 1903) (State Library of South Australia PRG 280/1/1/120)

Chinamans Hat Island as viewed from the nearby coastline

View of Pearson Island from its south end circa 1914 (State Library of South Australia PRG-280-1-12-263)

Ocean islands

Althorpe Islands
- Haystack Island
- Seal Island (Investigator Strait)
Beatrice Islets
Bicker Isles
Bird Islands
Boston Island
Busby Islet
Casuarina Islets
Chinamans Hat Island
Curlew Island
Douglas Rock
Entrance Island
Gambier Islands
Garden Island
Goose Island
Granite Island
Grantham Island
Greenly Island
Grindal Island
Investigator Group
- Flinders Island
- Pearson Isles
  - Dorothee Island
  - Pearson Island
  - Veteran Isles
- Topgallant Islands
- Waldegrave Islands
- Ward Islands
Jones Island
Kangaroo Island, Australia's third-largest island
Liguanea Island
Lipson Island
Louth Island
Neptune Islands
Nicolas Baudin Island
Nobby Islet
Nuyts Archipelago
- St Francis Island
- St Peter Island
- Smooth Island
Middle Island
Owen Island
Paisley Islet
Pelorus Islet
Pullen Island
Rabbit Island, Coffin Bay
Rabbit Island, Louth Bay
Rabbit Islet, Pelican Lagoon
Royston Island
St Francis Island
St Peter Island
Shag Island
Sir Joseph Banks Group
- Blyth Island
- Boucaut Island
- Dalby Island
- Dangerous Reef
- Duffield Island
- English Island
- Hareby Island
- Kirkby Island
- Langton Island
- Lusby Island
- Marum Island
- Partney Island
- Reevesby Island
- Roxby Island
- Seal Rock
- Sibsey Island
- Spilsby Island
- Stickney Island
- Winceby Island
Seal Island (Encounter Bay)
South Island
Taylor Island
Thistle Island
Torrens Island
Troubridge Island
Tumby Island
Unnamed island, Baird Bay
Wardang Island
Wedge Island
Weeroona Island
West Island
Wright Island

Murray River islands

Hindmarsh Island
Pomanda Island
Rabbit Island, Coorong

Tasmania

Macquarie Island

Currie harbour on King Island, 2007

Tasmania is a large island state off the south-east coast of mainland Australia. The main island of Tasmania (which includes 94% of the state's land area) does not have a defined name but can be referred to as the "Tasmanian mainland". There are 334 islands (or islets) within the state of Tasmania;^[6] with the main islands listed below, each having a land area greater than 100 hectares (250 acres). A full list of all 334 islands is located at the list of islands of Tasmania.

Bruny Island
Furneaux Island Group
- Anderson Island
- Babel Island
- Badger Island
- Big Green Island
- Cape Barren Island
- Clarke Island
- East Kangaroo Island
- Flinders Island
- Goose Island
- Great Dog Island
- Long Island
- Mount Chappell Island
Hogan Island
Hunter Island Group
- Hunter Island
- Robbins Island
- Three Hummock Island
Kent Island Group
- Deal Island
- Dover Island
- Erith Island
King Island
Maatsuyker Islands Group
- Chicken Island
- De Witt Island
- Maatsuyker Island
Macquarie Island
Maria Island
- Ile du Nord
Partridge Island
Petrel Island Group
- Big Sandy Petrel Island
- Big Stony Petrel Island
- Little Stony Petrel Island
- South West Petrel Island
- Kangaroo Island
- Howie Island
Robbins Island
- Walker Island (northwest)
Rodondo Island
Schouten Island
Sloping Island Group
- Sloping Island
- Smooth Island (Tasmania)
Waterhouse Island Group
- Swan Island
- Waterhouse Island

Victoria

Phillip Island, 2003

Anser Island
Barrallier Island
Bennison Island
Chinaman Island
Churchill Island
Corner Island
Duck Island
Elizabeth Island
French Island
Gabo Island
Griffiths Island
Joe Island
Kanowna Island
Lady Julia Percy Island
Mud Islands
Norman Island
Phillip Island
Raymond Island
Rotamah Island
Sandstone Island
Shellback Island
Snake Island
Sunday Island
Swan Island
Tullaberga Island
Mangrove Islet

River islands

Beveridge Island
Coode Island
Gunbower Island
Herring Island
Jordan's Island
Pental Island

Western Australia

Rottnest Island, 2003

View of the Recherche Archipelago from Dempster Head

Middle Island, Recherche Archipelago 2011

Over 1,000 islands have been gazetted – only the island groups and major islands are listed.

Ashmore Reef
Barrow Island
Bonaparte Archipelago
Buccaneer Archipelago
- Cockatoo Island
Cape Leeuwin Islands
Carnac Island
Dampier Archipelago
Dirk Hartog Island
Garden Island
Houtman Abrolhos
- Easter Group
- Pelsaert Group
- Wallabi Group
Lacepede Islands
Lowendal Islands
Mary Anne Group
Montebello Islands
Recherché Archipelago
Rottnest Island
Rowley Shoals
Scott and Seringapatam Reefs
Shark Bay islands
Wedge Island

Australian territories

Jervis Bay Territory

Bowen Island

Australian Capital Territory

Aspen Island
Pine Island
Spinnaker Island
Springbank Island

External territories

Norfolk Island, 2007

Ashmore and Cartier Islands
Australian Antarctic Territory^[7]
- Achernar Island
- Masson Island
- Hawker Island
- Frazier Islands
- Giganteus Island
Christmas Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Horsburgh Island
- Home Island
- North Keeling Island
- West Island
Coral Sea Islands
- Cato Island
- Elizabeth Reef
- Middleton Reef
- Willis Island
Heard Island and McDonald Islands
Norfolk Island
- Nepean Island
- Phillip Island

References

↑ Australia, c\=AU\;o\=Australia Government\;ou\=Geoscience (2014-05-15). "Islands" (in EN). https://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/national-location-information/landforms/islands#heading-2.
↑ "Area of Australia - States and Territories". Geoscience Australia. Australian Government. http://www.ga.gov.au/education/geoscience-basics/dimensions/area-of-australia-states-and-territories.html.
↑ "National Mapping - Fab Facts, Landforms, Australian Islands". Geoscience Australia. Australian Government. Archived from the original on 22 August 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080822133909/https://www.ga.gov.au/education/facts/landforms/largisle.htm.
↑ "The Inlet that Eluded Bass". Clyde Coast Links. http://www.southcoast.com.au/batemansbay/bassinlet/index.html. Retrieved 2009-02-01.
↑ no longer an island - Port of Brisbane wharves construction in the mouth of the Brisbane River extended over it
↑ Brothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; Lucieer, Vanessa (2001). Tasmania's offshore islands: seabirds and other natural features. Hobart, Tasmania: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-7246-4816-0.
↑ "National recovery plan for Albatrosses and Giant-petrels: Section 4.1.6 Australian Antarctic Territory". Australian Government, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. Archived from the original on 2008-08-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20080817111259/http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/publications/recovery/albatross/habitat.html. Retrieved 2008-07-16.

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[1] Australia, c\=AU\;o\=Australia Government\;ou\=Geoscience (2014-05-15). "Islands" (in EN). https://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/national-location-information/landforms/islands#heading-2.

[2] "Area of Australia - States and Territories". Geoscience Australia. Australian Government. http://www.ga.gov.au/education/geoscience-basics/dimensions/area-of-australia-states-and-territories.html.

[3] "National Mapping - Fab Facts, Landforms, Australian Islands". Geoscience Australia. Australian Government. Archived from the original on 22 August 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080822133909/https://www.ga.gov.au/education/facts/landforms/largisle.htm.

[wasp-4] "The Inlet that Eluded Bass". Clyde Coast Links. http://www.southcoast.com.au/batemansbay/bassinlet/index.html. Retrieved 2009-02-01.

[5] r an island - Port of Brisbane wharves construction in the mouth of the Brisbane River extended over it

[brothers_et_al-6] Brothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; Lucieer, Vanessa (2001). Tasmania's offshore islands: seabirds and other natural features. Hobart, Tasmania: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-7246-4816-0.

[ant-7] "National recovery plan for Albatrosses and Giant-petrels: Section 4.1.6 Australian Antarctic Territory". Australian Government, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. Archived from the original on 2008-08-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20080817111259/http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/publications/recovery/albatross/habitat.html. Retrieved 2008-07-16.

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