| The Island Packet | |
| Type: | Daily newspaper |
| Format: | Broadsheet |
| Foundation: | 1970 |
| Owners: | The McClatchy Company[1] |
| Headquarters: | 10 Buck Island Road Bluffton, SC 29910 |
| Editor: | Brian Tolley |
| Publisher: | Brian Tolley |
| Circulation: | 16,196 Daily 17,015 Sunday |
| Circulation Date: | 2020 |
| Circulation Ref: | [2] |
| Issn: | 0746-4886 |
The Island Packet is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper owned by Chatham Asset Management,[3] serving primarily the residents of southern Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States, particularly the towns of Hilton Head Island and Bluffton.
The newspaper was founded as a weekly on July 9, 1970, by Tom Wamsley and Ralph Hilton, with financial backing by Lucy and Jonathan Daniels, editor emeritus of the Raleigh News & Observer. Television personality Garry Moore had a regular humor column in the paper in the late 1970s and early 1980s titled "Mumble, Mumble".