List of islands of Australia explained
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 are:[2] [3]
- Tasmania (Tas) ;
- Melville Island, Northern Territory (NT), ;
- Kangaroo Island, South Australia (SA), ;
- Groote Eylandt (NT), ;
- Bathurst Island (NT), ;
- K'gari, Queensland (Qld), ;
- Flinders Island (Tas), ;
- King Island (Tas), ; and
- Mornington Island (Qld), .
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
- 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, 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, 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:
- 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, 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, 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
Queensland
- 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
- 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
See main article: category.
Ocean islands
Murray River islands
See main article: List of islands within the Murray River in South Australia.
Tasmania
See main article: category.
See main article: 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 . A full list of all 334 islands is located at the list of islands of Tasmania.
Victoria
River islands
Western Australia
See main article: category.
See main article: 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.
Australian territories
Jervis Bay Territory
Australian Capital Territory
External territories
See also
References
Notes and References
- Web site: Islands. Geoscience Australia. 2014-05-15. www.ga.gov.au. EN. 2020-01-09.
- Web site: Area of Australia - States and Territories . . 15 May 2014 . Australian Government .
- Web site: National Mapping - Fab Facts, Landforms, Australian Islands . . Australian Government . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080822133909/https://www.ga.gov.au/education/facts/landforms/largisle.htm . 22 August 2008 . dmy-all .
- Web site: The Inlet that Eluded Bass . Clyde Coast Links . 2009-02-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130410080817/http://www.southcoast.com.au/batemansbay/bassinlet/index.html . 10 April 2013 . dead .
- No longer an island - Port of Brisbane wharves construction in the mouth of the Brisbane River extended over it
- Book: Brothers, Nigel . Pemberton, David . Pryor, Helen . Lucieer, Vanessa . Tasmania's offshore islands: seabirds and other natural features . 2001 . Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery . 978-0-7246-4816-0 . Hobart, Tasmania . 2001 . 44 .
- Web site: 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 . 2008-07-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080817111259/http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/publications/recovery/albatross/habitat.html . 2008-08-17 .
