List of islands of Australia

"Islands of Australia" redirects here. For the 2016 television program, see Martin Clunes: 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]

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2019)

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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);
* 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[edit]

Bird Island, 1996 Cockatoo Island, the largest island in Sydney Harbour, 2008 Lord Howe Island, 2006

* 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:
* Ashby Island
* Chatsworth Island
* Freeburn Island
* Goodwood Island
* Harwood Island
* Micalo Island
* Palmers Island
* Thorny Island
* Warregah Island
* Yargai Island
* 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, 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:
* Bass Island
* Big Island
* Martin Island
* Red Island
* Tom Thumb Island
* 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:
* Berageree Island
* Bevan's Island
* Gooseberry Island
* Hooka Island
* Picnic Island
* Cudgeree Island
* Kooragang Island, in the lower Hunter River
* Lake Eucumbene:
* Grace Lea Island
* Hallstrom Island
* Heron Island
* Teal Island
* 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
* Ball's Pyramid
* Admiralty Group
* 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
* North Solitary Island
* South Solitary Island
* Southwest Solitary Island
* Mid Solitary Island
* Split Solitary Island
* 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[edit]

Fraser Island, 2006 Great Keppel Island, 2007 Whitehaven Beach, Whitsunday Island, 2008

* 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
* Russell Island
* 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
* Sue Islet
* 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
* 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[edit]

Main category: Islands of 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

For a more comprehensive list, see List of islands within the Murray River in South Australia.

* Hindmarsh Island
* Mundoo Island
* Pomanda Island
* Rabbit Island, Coorong

## Tasmania[edit]

Macquarie Island Currie harbour on King Island, 2007

Main category: Islands of Tasmania

For a more comprehensive list, see List of islands of Tasmania.

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
* Picnic 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[edit]

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[edit]

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

## Western Australia[edit]

Rottnest Island, 2003 View of the Recherche Archipelago from Dempster Head Middle Island, Recherche Archipelago 2011

Main category: Islands of Western Australia

For a more comprehensive list, see List of islands of Western Australia.

See also: Islands of Perth, Western Australia

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[edit]

### Jervis Bay Territory[edit]

* Bowen Island

### Australian Capital Territory[edit]

* Kingston Island
* Pine Island
* Queen Elizabeth II Island
* Spinnaker Island
* Springbank Island

## External territories[edit]

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[edit]

* Australia portal
* Islands portal

* 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]

1. ^ Australia, c\=AU\;o\=Australia Government\;ou\=Geoscience (15 May 2014). "Islands". www.ga.gov.au. Retrieved 9 January 2020.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. ^ "Area of Australia - States and Territories". Geoscience Australia. Australian Government. 15 May 2014.
3. ^ "National Mapping - Fab Facts, Landforms, Australian Islands". Geoscience Australia. Australian Government. Archived from the original on 22 August 2008.
4. ^ "The Inlet that Eluded Bass". Clyde Coast Links. Archived from the original on 10 April 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2009.
5. ^ a b 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. `{{cite book}}`: `|work=` ignored (help)
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 17 August 2008. Retrieved 16 July 2008.

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