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]

## Contents

* 1 Largest islands
* 2 New South Wales
* 3 Northern Territory
* 4 Queensland
* 5 South Australia
* 5.1 Ocean islands
* 5.2 Murray River islands
* 6 Tasmania
* 7 Victoria
* 7.1 River islands
* 8 Western Australia
* 9 Australian territories
* 9.1 Jervis Bay Territory
* 9.2 Australian Capital Territory
* 10 External territories
* 11 See also
* 12 References

## 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

## See also

* 15 Islands In Australia That Will Blow Your Mind!
* 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

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.
4. ↑ "The Inlet that Eluded Bass". Clyde Coast Links. http://www.southcoast.com.au/batemansbay/bassinlet/index.html. Retrieved 2009-02-01.
5. ↑ no longer an island - Port of Brisbane wharves construction in the mouth of the Brisbane River extended over it
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.
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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