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List of islands of Australia
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This is a list of selected Australian islands grouped by state or territory. Australia has 8,222 islands within its maritime borders.[1]
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Largest islands
[edit]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);
- K'gari, 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).
Apart from the state of Tasmania (with a population of 570,000), the largest islands by population are those connected to major urban areas on the mainland by bridge, including Bribie Island near Brisbane with a population of 18,000, and Phillip Island near Melbourne with a population of 14,000.
New South Wales
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- Amherst Island, in Lake Mummuga
- Ash Island, in the lower Hunter River
- Bare Island, near the north headland of Botany Bay
- Belowla Island, off Kioloa Beach
- Bird Island, located near Budgewoi, 1.4 kilometres (0.87 mi) east of the Central Coast
- Boondelbah Island, at the mouth of Port Stephens
- Brisbane Water:
- Pelican Island
- Riley's Island
- St Hubert's Island (largely artificial, created by raising an inter-tidal wetland above high water level)
- Broughton Island, located north of Port Stephens
- Broulee Island, located off the coast at Broulee
- Brush Island, off Bawley Point
- Cabbage Tree Island, at the mouth of Port Stephens
- Cabbage Tree Island, in the Richmond River
- Carter's Island, in Botany Bay near the mouth of George's River
- Clarence River estuary:
- Clark Island, in Sydney Harbour
- Cockatoo Island, in Sydney Harbour, originally used as a prison and later developed as a shipyard
- Comerong Island, in the Shoalhaven River estuary
- Coocumbac Island, in the Manning River at Taree
- Cook Island, located near Tweed Heads
- Crampton Island, off the mouth of Lake Tabourie
- Dalhunty Island, in Wilson River at Telegraph Point
- Dangar Island, a small forested island in the Hawkesbury River
- Darling Island, a former island subsequently bridged by land, part of Pyrmont, in Sydney Harbour
- Elizabeth Island, in the Clarence River near Grafton
- Esk Island, in the north arm of the Clarence River
- Fatima Island, a tidal island of the Cook's River
- Fattorini Island, in the Macleay River near Smithtown
- Fort Denison, also known as Pinchgut
- Five Islands Nature Reserve, a group of islands off the coast of Wollongong:
- Garden Island (no longer an island)
- Glebe Island (no longer an island)
- Goat Island, a rocky island in Sydney Harbour
- Green Island, a small island north of Smoky Cape
- Green Island, off the mouth of Lake Conjola
- Hexham Island, in the lower Hunter River
- Honeysuckle Island, in Wallaga Lake
- Horse Island, in Tuross Lake
- Joass Island, located in Little Swan Bay, Port Stephens
- Kurrajong Island, in the Shoalhaven estuary
- Lake Illawarra:
- Kooragang Island, in the lower Hunter River
- Lake Eucumbene:
- Lion Island, in Broken Bay
- Little Rawdon Island, in Hastings River downstream of Wauchope
- Long Island, in the Hawkesbury River
- Lord Howe Island, a small oceanic island in the Tasman Sea, 600 kilometres (370 mi) east of the Australian mainland; it is the most remote island of Australia to not fall under external territory status
- Manning River estuary:
- Cabbage Tree Island
- Dumaresq Island
- Mitchell's Island
- Oxley Island
- Merriman Island, in Wallaga Lake
- 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
- Newry Island, in the Kalang River near Urunga
- Numbaa Island, in the Shoalhaven River
- Payne's Island, in Wallaga Lake
- Peat Island, in the Hawkesbury River
- Pig Island, in the Shoalhaven River
- Pimlico Island, in Richmond River near Wardell
- Pinchgut - see Fort Denison, a former penal site and defensive facility in Sydney Harbour
- Pulbah Island, the largest island in Lake Macquarie
- Rawdon Island, in Hastings River downstream of Wauchope
- Reedy Island, in Tuross Lake
- Regatta Island, in Wallis Lake
- Rodd Island, a small island in Iron Cove, an arm of Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour)
- Sanctuary Island, in Narrabeen Lagoon
- Scotland Island, in Pittwater
- Shark Island, in Sydney Harbour
- Snapper Island, in Sydney Harbour
- Spectacle Island, in the Hawkesbury River
- Spectacle Island, in Sydney Harbour
- Solitary Islands
- Stott's Island, in Tweed River at Tumbuulgum
- Stuart's Island, in Nambucca River at Bellwood
- Sultan's Island off coast 4 km north of Eden
- Susan Island, in Clarence River at Grafton
- Teribah Island, at The Entrance, Tuggerah Lake
- Tollgate Islands (2), in Bateman's Bay
- Ukerebagh Island, in Tweed River at South Tweed Heads
- Wallis Island, in Wallis Lake
- Wasp Island, the only island in Durras Inlet near Batemans Bay[4]
- Wedding Cake Island, a small island off the coast of Coogee
- Windang Island, a small island at the entrance to Lake Illawarra
- Woodford Island, in the Clarence River immediately upstream of Maclean
- Yellow Rock Island, at junction of Bellinger and Kalang Rivers near Urunga
Northern Territory
[edit]- Bathurst Island
- Bickerton Island
- Bruney 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
- Inglis Island
- Marchinbar Island
- Martjanba Island
- Melville Island, the second largest island in Australia
- Quail Island
- Sir Edward Pellew Group
- Tiwi Islands
- Vanderlin Island
- Wessel Islands
Queensland
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- Acheron Island
- Agnes Island
- Albino Rock
- Aplin Islet
- Arnold Islets
- Avoid Island
- Baird Island
- Barber Island
- Barrow Island
- Bayley Island
- Bedarra Island
- Beesley Island
- Bentinck 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, Cape York Peninsula
- Denham Island, Wellesley Islands
- Douglas Islet
- Duncan Islands
- Dunk Island
- Eagle Island
- Ellis Island
- Ephraim Island
- Esk Island
- Eclipse Island
- Fantome Island
- Falcon Island
- Fisher Island
- Fisherman Island[5]
- Fitzroy Island
- Fly Island
- Frankland Islands
- K'gari, 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
- Bedwell Group
- Beverley Group
- Broad Sound Islands
- Duke Islands
- Flat Isles
- Guardfish Cluster
- Percy Isles
- Orpheus Island
- Paddy Island
- Pains 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
- Torres Strait Islands
- Trochus Island
- Turtle Group
- Watson Island
- Wellesley Islands
- North Wellesley Islands (Mornington, Moondalbee, Lingnoonganee, Pisonia, Lingeleah, Beahgoo, Jinke, Sydney, Tulburrerr, Denham, and Andrew Islands)
- South Wellesley Islands (Allen, Horseshoe, Albinia, Bentinck, Fowler, and Sweers Islands)
- West Wellesley Islands (Forsyth, Ivis, Pains, and Bayley Islands)
- Wheeler Island
- Whitsunday Islands
- Wilson Island
South Australia
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Ocean islands
[edit]- Althorpe Islands
- 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
- Jones Island
- Kangaroo Island, Australia's third-largest island
- Liguanea Island
- Lipson Island
- Louth Island
- Neptune Islands
- Nicolas Baudin Island
- Nobby Islet
- Nuyts Archipelago
- 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
- 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
[edit]- Hindmarsh Island
- Mundoo Island
- Pomanda Island
- Rabbit Island, Coorong
Tasmania
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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.
Victoria
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- 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
[edit]Western Australia
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Over 1,000 islands have been gazetted – only the island groups and major islands are listed.
- Ashmore Reef
- Barrow Island
- Bonaparte Archipelago
- Buccaneer Archipelago
- Cape Leeuwin Islands
- Carnac Island
- Dampier Archipelago
- Dirk Hartog Island
- Garden Island
- Houtman Abrolhos
- 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
[edit]Jervis Bay Territory
[edit]Australian Capital Territory
[edit]External territories
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See also
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- List of islands
- List of islands in the Pacific Ocean
- List of islands in the Indian Ocean
- List of islands of Asia
- List of Torres Strait Islands
References
[edit]- ^ Geoscience Australia (15 May 2014). "Islands". www.ga.gov.au. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
- ^ "Area of Australia - States and Territories". Geoscience Australia. Australian Government. 15 May 2014.
- ^ "National Mapping - Fab Facts, Landforms, Australian Islands". Geoscience Australia. Australian Government. Archived from the original on 22 August 2008.
- ^ "The Inlet that Eluded Bass". Clyde Coast Links. Archived from the original on 10 April 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2009.
- ^ a b 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 17 August 2008. Retrieved 16 July 2008.
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