This is a list of selected Australian islands grouped by
State or Territory.
Australia has 8,222 islands within its maritime borders.
Largest islands
The islands larger than are:
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Tasmania
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(Tas) ;
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Melville Island,
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Aust ...
(NT), ;
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Kangaroo Island
Kangaroo Island, also known as Karta Pintingga (literally 'Island of the Dead' in the language of the Kaurna people), is Australia's third-largest island, after Tasmania and Melville Island. It lies in the state of South Australia, southwest ...
,
South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...
(SA), ;
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Groote Eylandt
Groote Eylandt ( Anindilyakwa: ''Ayangkidarrba'' meaning "island" ) is the largest island in the Gulf of Carpentaria and the fourth largest island in Australia. It was named by the explorer Abel Tasman in 1644 and is Dutch for "Large Island" i ...
(NT), ;
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Bathurst Island (NT), ;
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Fraser Island
Fraser Island ( Butchulla: ) is a World Heritage-listed island along the south-eastern coast in the Wide Bay–Burnett region, Queensland, Australia. The island is approximately north of the state capital, Brisbane, and is within the Fras ...
,
Queensland
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(Qld), ;
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Flinders Island
Flinders Island, the largest island in the Furneaux Group, is a island in the Bass Strait, northeast of the island of Tasmania. Flinders Island was the place where the last remnants of aboriginal Tasmanian population were exiled by the colo ...
(Tas), ;
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King Island (Tas), ; and
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Mornington Island
Mornington Island, also known as Kunhanhaa, is an island in the Gulf of Carpentaria in the Shire of Mornington, Queensland, Australia. It is the northernmost and largest of 22 islands that form the Wellesley Islands group. The largest town, ...
(Qld), .
New South Wales
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Amherst Island, in Lake Mummuga
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Bare Island, near the north headland of Botany Bay
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Belowla Island, off Kioloa Beach
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Bird Island, located near Budgewoi, east of the Central Coast
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Boondelbah Island
Boondelbah Island, also known as the Boondelbah Nature Reserve, is a protected nature reserve and uninhabited island lying off the mouth of Port Stephens on the coast of New South Wales, Australia. The reserve and island is one of two breeding ...
, at the mouth of Port Stephens
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Brisbane Water
Brisbane Water is a wave-dominated barrier estuary located in the Central Coast region, north of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Brisbane Water has its origin at the confluence of the Narara and Coorumbine Creeks, to the south–east ...
:
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Pelican Island
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Riley's Island
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St Hubert's Island
ST, St, or St. may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Stanza, in poetry
* Suicidal Tendencies, an American heavy metal/hardcore punk band
* Star Trek, a science-fiction media franchise
* Summa Theologica, a compendium of Catholic philosophy an ...
(largely artificial, created by raising an inter-tidal wetland above high water level)
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Broughton Island, located north of
Port Stephens
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Broulee Island
Broulee is a town on the south coast of New South Wales between Batemans Bay and Moruya. At the , the town had a population of 1,717. Just off the beach is Broulee Island, currently joined to the mainland, but in past years the connecting spit ...
, located off the coast at
Broulee
Broulee is a town on the south coast of New South Wales between Batemans Bay and Moruya. At the , the town had a population of 1,717. Just off the beach is Broulee Island, currently joined to the mainland, but in past years the connecting spit ...
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Brush Island, off Bawley Point
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Cabbage Tree Island
Cabbage Tree Island, also known as the John Gould Nature Reserve, is a protected nature reserve and uninhabited continental island lying off the mouth of Port Stephens on the coast of New South Wales, Australia. The reserve and island is named ...
, at the mouth of Port Stephens
*Cabbage Tree Island, in the Richmond River
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Carter's Island, in Botany Bay near the mouth of George's River
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Clarence River estuary:
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Ashby Island
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Chatsworth Island
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Freeburn Island
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Goodwood Island
Goodwood Island is an island situated between the main channel of the Clarence River and the river's north Arm near Iluka and Woombah, New South Wales Australia. It has a large wharf at the ''Port of Yamba'' where ocean traders collect cargo to ...
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Harwood Island
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Micalo Island
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Palmer's Island
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Thorny Island
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Warregah Island
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Yargai Island
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Clark Island, in Sydney Harbour
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Cockatoo Island, in Sydney Harbour, originally used as a prison and later developed as a shipyard
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Comerong Island, in the Shoalhaven River estuary
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Coocumbac Island, in the Manning River at Taree
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Cook Island, located near
Tweed Heads
Tweed Heads is a town in New South Wales. It is located on the Tweed River in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, in Tweed Shire, next to the border with Queensland and adjacent to its "twin town" of Coolangatta, which is a suburb of the ...
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Crampton Island, off the mouth of Lake Tabourie
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Dalhunty Island, in Wilson River at Telegraph Point
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Dangar Island
Dangar Island is a forested island, in area, in the Hawkesbury River, just north of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Dangar Island is a suburb of Hornsby Shire and as at the 2016 census had a population of 303, which swells dramatically duri ...
, a small forested island in the Hawkesbury River
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Darling Island
Darling is a term of endearment of Old English origin.
Darling or Darlin' or Darlings may also refer to:
People
* Darling (surname)
* Darling Jimenez (born 1980), American boxer
* Darling Légitimus (1907–1999), French actress
Places Austral ...
, a former island subsequently bridged by land, in Sydney Harbour
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Elizabeth Island, in the Clarence River near Grafton
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Esk Island, in the north arm of the Clarence River
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Fatima Island, a tidal island of the Cook's River
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Fattorini Island
Fattorini & Sons was a jewellery business established by a family of Italian immigrants who arrived in the British city of Leeds, in Yorkshire, England in the early 19th century. Antonio Fattorini opened a shop in Harrogate to take advantage of ...
, in the Macleay River near Smithtown
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Fort Denison
Fort Denison, part of the Sydney Harbour National Park, is a protected national park that is a heritage-listed former penal site and defensive facility occupying a small island located north-east of the Royal Botanic Garden and approximate ...
, also known as ''Pinchgut''
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Five Islands Nature Reserve
The Five Islands Nature Reserve is a protected nature reserve located in the Tasman Sea, off the Illawarra east coast of the state of New South Wales, Australia. The reserve comprises five continental islands that are situated between east of ...
, a group of islands off the coast of Wollongong:
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Bass Island
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Big Island
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Martin Island
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Red Island
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Tom Thumb Island
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Garden Island (no longer an island)
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Glebe Island
Glebe Island was a major port facility in Sydney Harbour and, in association with the adjacent White Bay facility, was the primary receiving venue for imported cars and dry bulk goods in the region until 2008. It is surrounded by White, Johnsto ...
(no longer an island)
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Goat Island, a rocky island in Sydney Harbour
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Green Island, a small island north of Smoky Cape
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Green Island, off the mouth of Lake Conjola
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Hexham Island, in the lower Hunter River
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Honeysuckle Island, in Wallaga Lake
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Horse Island, in Tuross Lake
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Joass Island, located in
Little Swan Bay,
Port Stephens
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Kurrajong Island, in the Shoalhaven estuary
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Lake Illawarra
Lake Illawarra ( Aboriginal Tharawal language: various adaptions of ''Elouera'', ''Eloura'', or ''Allowrie''; ''Illa'', ''Wurra'', or ''Warra'' meaning pleasant place near the sea, or, high place near the sea, or, white clay mountain), is an ope ...
:
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Berageree Island
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Bevan's Island
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Gooseberry Island
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Hooka Island
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Picnic Island
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Cudgeree Island
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Kooragang Island
Kooragang () is the northernmost and largest suburb of the city of Newcastle, in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. Dominated by Kooragang Island, the eastern part of the suburb is primarily industrial, while the western part of th ...
, in the lower Hunter River
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Lake Eucumbene
Eucumbene Dam is a major gated earthfill embankment dam with an overflow ski-jump and bucket spillway with two vertical lift gates across the Eucumbene River in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. The dam's main purpose is for t ...
:
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Grace Lea Island
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Hallstrom Island
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Heron Island
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Teal Island
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Lion Island, in Broken Bay
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Little Rawdon Island, in Hastings River downstream of Wauchope
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Long Island, in the Hawkesbury River
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Lord Howe Island
Lord Howe Island (; formerly Lord Howe's Island) is an irregularly crescent-shaped volcanic remnant in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, part of the Australian state of New South Wales. It lies directly east of mainland P ...
, 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
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Ball's Pyramid
Ball's Pyramid is an erosional remnant of a shield volcano and caldera lying southeast of Lord Howe Island in the Pacific Ocean. It is high, while measuring in length and only across, making it the tallest volcanic stack in the world. Ba ...
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Admiralty Group
The Admiralty Group of islets consists of eight rocky outcrops within 2 km of the north of Lord Howe Island. From south to north, these are:
#Soldier’s Cap
#Sugarloaf
#South Island
#Noddy
#Roach Island
#Tenth of June
#North Rock
#Flat Rock
...
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Manning River
Manning River (Biripi: ''Boolumbahtee''), an open and trained mature wave dominated barrier estuary, is located in the Northern Tablelands and Mid North Coast districts of New South Wales, Australia. It is the only double delta river in the ...
estuary:
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Cabbage Tree Island
Cabbage Tree Island, also known as the John Gould Nature Reserve, is a protected nature reserve and uninhabited continental island lying off the mouth of Port Stephens on the coast of New South Wales, Australia. The reserve and island is named ...
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Dumaresq Island
The Dumaresq is a mechanical calculating device invented around 1902 by Lieutenant John Dumaresq of the Royal Navy. It is an analogue computer that relates vital variables of the fire control problem to the movement of one's own ship and that ...
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Mitchell's Island
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Oxley Island
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Merriman Island
Wallaga Lake is an estuarine lake in Bega Valley Shire in New South Wales, Australia, the largest lake in southern NSW. It is located between Bermagui to the south and between Tilba Tilba to the north, situated beneath Mount Gulaga, in the tra ...
, in Wallaga Lake
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Milson Island
Milson Island is located in New South Wales, Australia. It was first settled over 100 years ago and has been used as a bacteriological station, quarantine station, a hospital to treat soldiers from WWI with venereal disease, mental hospital, a re ...
, in the Hawkesbury River
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Montague Island, east of Narooma on the south coast
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Moon Island, 1 km off Swansea Heads
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Muttonbird Island, off
Coffs Harbour
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Newry Island, in the Kalang River near Urunga
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Numbaa Island, in the Shoalhaven River
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Payne's Island, in Wallaga Lake
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Peat Island
Peat Island is a small island of approximately eight hectares in the Hawkesbury River, just north of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It forms part of the suburb called Mooney Mooney and is located just upstream from the Sydney – Newcastl ...
, in the Hawkesbury River
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Pig Island, in the Shoalhaven River
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Pimlico Island
Pimlico () is an area of Central London in the City of Westminster, built as a southern extension to neighbouring Belgravia. It is known for its garden squares and distinctive Regency architecture. Pimlico is demarcated to the north by Victo ...
, in Richmond River near Wardell
*''Pinchgut'' - see
Fort Denison
Fort Denison, part of the Sydney Harbour National Park, is a protected national park that is a heritage-listed former penal site and defensive facility occupying a small island located north-east of the Royal Botanic Garden and approximate ...
, a former penal site and defensive facility in Sydney Harbour
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Pulbah Island
Lake Macquarie (Awabakal: ''Awaba'') is Australia's largest coastal salt water lake. Located in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, it covers an area of and is connected to the Tasman Sea by a short channel. Most of the residents of the City ...
, the largest island in Lake Macquarie
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Rawdon Island, in Hastings River downstream of Wauchope
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Reedy Island
Reedy Island is a small island in the middle of the channel of the Delaware River near its mouth on the Delaware Bay in the U.S. state of Delaware. It is located approximately east of Port Penn, Delaware and southwest of Salem, New Jersey.
The i ...
, in Tuross Lake
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Regatta Island, in Wallis Lake
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Rodd Island
Rodd Island is a island on the Parramatta River in Sydney, Australia. It lies in the centre of Iron Cove, between the suburbs of Drummoyne, Russell Lea, Rodd Point, Haberfield, Lilyfield and Leichhardt. It is located west of the Sydney Ha ...
, a small island in Iron Cove, an arm of Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour)
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Sanctuary Island, in Narrabeen Lagoon
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Scotland Island
Scotland Island is an island and suburb on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Church Point, Scotland Island's major mainland service locality, is located 32 kilometres north of the Sydney central b ...
, in Pittwater
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Shark Island, in Sydney Harbour
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Snapper Island, in Sydney Harbour
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Spectacle Island, in the Hawkesbury River
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Spectacle Island, in Sydney Harbour
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Solitary Islands
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North Solitary Island
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South Solitary Island
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Southwest Solitary Island
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Mid Solitary Island
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Split Solitary Island
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Stott's Island, in Tweed River at Tumbuulgum
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Stuart's Island, in Nambucca River at Bellwood
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Sultan's Island off coast 4 km north of Eden
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Susan Island, in Clarence River at Grafton
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Teribah Island, at The Entrance, Tuggerah Lake
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Tollgate Islands (2), in Bateman's Bay
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Ukerebagh Island
The Ukerabagh Island is a Island#River island, river island in the Ukerabagh Island Nature Reserve, a state park, protected nature reserve. It is located in the mouth (river), mouth of the Tweed River (New South Wales), Tweed River, in the Nort ...
, in Tweed River at South Tweed Heads
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Wallis Island
Wallis ( Wallisian: ''Uvea'') is a Polynesian atoll/island in the Pacific Ocean belonging to the French overseas collectivity (''collectivité d'outre-mer'', or ''COM'') of Wallis and Futuna. It lies north of Tonga, northeast of Fiji, east-n ...
, in Wallis Lake
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Wasp Island, the only island in Durras Inlet near
Batemans Bay
Batemans Bay is a town on the South Coast region of the state of New South Wales, Australia. Batemans Bay is administered by the Eurobodalla Shire council. The town is situated on the shores of an estuary formed where the Clyde River meets th ...
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Wedding Cake Island, a small island off the coast of Coogee
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Windang Island, a small island at the entrance to Lake Illawarra
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Woodford Island
Woodford Island is an inland island in the Far-North Coast of New South Wales, Australia. It is formed by the Clarence River where it splits into the South Arm and North Arm at the small village of Brushgrove then reforms at the town of Maclea ...
, in the Clarence River immediately upstream of Maclean
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Yellow Rock Island, at junction of Bellinger and Kalang Rivers near Urunga
Northern Territory
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Bathurst Island
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Bickerton Island
Bickerton Island is 13 km west of Groote Eylandt and 8 km east of the mouth of Blue Mud Bay in eastern Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is about 21 by 21 kilometres in size, with deep bays and indentations, and ...
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Bruney Island
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Crocodile Islands
The Crocodile Islands are a group of islands belonging to the Yan-nhaŋu people of the Northern Territory of Australia. They are located off the coast of Arnhem Land in the Arafura Sea.
List of islands Larger islands
* Milingimbi Island, in t ...
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Croker Island
Croker Island is an island in the Arafura Sea off the coast of the Northern Territory, Australia, northeast of Darwin. It was the site of the Croker Island Mission between 1940 and 1968.
Indigenous peoples
At the earliest time of European co ...
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East Woody Island
East Woody Island (Yolŋu: ''Dhamitjinya''), is an island in Australia. It is located in East Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. The closest town is Nhulunbuy. A sand spit
A spit or sandspit is a deposition bar or beach landform off ...
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Elcho Island
Elcho Island, known to its traditional owners as Galiwin'ku (Galiwinku) is an island off the coast of Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is located at the southern end of the Wessel Islands group located in the East Arnhem ...
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Goulburn Islands
The Goulburn Islands are a group of small islands and islets in the Arafura Sea off the coast of Arnhem Land in Northern Territory of Australia. The largest islands are Weyirra (North Goulburn Island) and Warruwi (South Goulburn Island), where t ...
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Groote Eylandt
Groote Eylandt ( Anindilyakwa: ''Ayangkidarrba'' meaning "island" ) is the largest island in the Gulf of Carpentaria and the fourth largest island in Australia. It was named by the explorer Abel Tasman in 1644 and is Dutch for "Large Island" i ...
- The name is an archaic spelling of the Dutch words for "Big Island" - Australia's 4th largest island
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Howard Island
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Inglis Island
Inglis Island is the largest of a group called the English Company's Islands, in Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central ...
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Marchinbar Island
Marchinbar Island is the largest island in the Wessel Islands in the Northern Territory of Australia in the Arafura Sea.
Location
It is separated from Rimbija Island, the most northeasterly of the Wessel Islands, by a narrow channel, which is ...
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Martjanba Island
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Melville Island, the second largest island in Australia
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Quail Island
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Sir Edward Pellew Group
The Sir Edward Pellew Group of Islands is situated in the south-west corner of the Gulf of Carpentaria, off the coast of the Northern Territory, Australia.
History
They were named in 1802 by Matthew Flinders in honour of Sir Edward Pellew, ...
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Tiwi Islands
The Tiwi Islands ( tiw, Ratuati Irara meaning "two islands") are part of the Northern Territory, Australia, to the north of Darwin adjoining the Timor Sea. They comprise Melville Island, Bathurst Island, and nine smaller uninhabited islands, w ...
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Vanderlin Island
Vanderlin Island is an island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Territory, Australia. It is the largest island in the Sir Edward Pellew Group. Its area is . The island is part of the traditional lands of the Walu people.
The only settlemen ...
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Wessel Islands
The Wessel Islands is a group of uninhabited islands in the Northern Territory of Australia. They extend in a more or less straight line from Buckingham Bay and the Napier Peninsula of Arnhem Land, and Elcho Island, to the northeast. Marchinbar ...
Queensland
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Acheron Island
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Agnes Island
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Albino Rock
Albino Rock, formerly White Rock, is an islet east of Great Palm Island, part of the Greater Palm group in Queensland, Australia. The island is in the Hinchinbrook jurisdiction, and is part of Orpheus Island National Park.
The surrounding ...
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Aplin Islet
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Arnold Islets
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Avoid Island
Avoid Island is one of the Flat Isles, within the island chain called the Northumberland Islands, around off the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia, approximately south of Mackay. Owned and managed by the Queensland Trust for Nature (QTF ...
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Baird Island
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Barber Island
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Barrow Island Barrow Island may refer to:
* Barrow Island (Western Australia), Australia
* Barrow Island (Queensland), Australia
* Barrow Island, Barrow-in-Furness
Barrow Island is an area and electoral ward of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. Origina ...
*
Bayley Island
Bayley Island is one of the West Wellesley Islands, on the eastern side of the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, Australia. It is within the Shire of Mornington.
Geography
The island is located northwest of the mainland, and less than sout ...
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Bedarra Island
Bedarra Island (also known as Richards Island) is one of the Family Islands group within the locality of Dunk in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland. Australia.
Geography
Bedarra Island is approximately seven kilometres off the tropical Nort ...
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Beesley Island
Beesley Island is an island in the Piper Islands National Park in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, Queensland, Australia. It is located in Temple Bay about 100 km northeast of Kutini-Payamu National Park and Lockhart River and 50  ...
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Bentinck Island
Bentinck Island is a small island in the Strait of Juan de Fuca just off the southern tip of Vancouver Island in Metchosin, British Columbia, Canada near Race Rocks. It served as a leper colony beginning in 1924, when the federal government shut ...
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Bird Islands
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Bishop Island
Bishop Island is a Baffin Island offshore island located in the Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut. The island lies in Frobisher Bay, approximately southwest of Iqaluit. Hill Island and Faris Island are in the immediate vicinity.
...
[No longer an island - ]Port of Brisbane
Port of Brisbane is the shipping port and coastal suburb of the City of Brisbane, on the east coast of Queensland, Australia. In the , Port of Brisbane had no residents living in the suburb. The port is the largest in the state of Queensland.
...
wharves construction in the mouth of the Brisbane River extended over it
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Bootie Island
Bootie Island is a small island in the Shire of Cook in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is part of the Cockburn Islands Group.
Geography
Bootie Island is northeast of Cape Grenville in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. It is around ...
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Bountiful Islands
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Bowden Island
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Boyne Island
Boyne Island is a coastal town and locality in the Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia. In the the locality of Boyne Island had a population of 4,760 people.
Boyne Island is south of Gladstone.
Geography
It is located on the west bank o ...
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Brampton Island
Brampton Island is an island in the Cumberland Group, off shore from Mackay in the Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia. The island lies within the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, and the majority of the island forms the Brampton Isla ...
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Bribie Island
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Brisk Island
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Brook Islands, three islands: North, Tween and Middle.
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Bourke Isles
The Bourke Isles are a group of islands and islets in the archipelago known as the Torres Strait Islands, located west of the Cumberland Passage in the Torres Strait, and are part of the state of Queensland, Australia. The isles are situated a ...
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Bushy Island
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Bushy Islet
Bushy Islet is a one-mile-long islet in Queensland, Australia about from Woody Island and from Quoin Island in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park of Queensland, Australia. It is approximately west of Cairncross Island.
Bushy Islet is part ...
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Cholmondeley Islet
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Clack Island
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Clerke Island
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Coconut Island
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Coochiemudlo Island
Coochiemudlo Island is a small island in the southern part of Moreton Bay, near Brisbane, in South East Queensland, Australia. It is also the name of the locality upon the island, which is within the local government area of Redland City.
In ...
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Crab Island
* Cordelia Rocks
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Coquet Island
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Curacoa Island
Curacoa Island (pron. KEWR-É™-sow) is one of the islands in the Palm Islands group off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The nearest island is Great Palm Island, after which the group is named. Curacoa Island is uninhabited.
The Aborigina ...
*
Denham Island, Cape York Peninsula
* Denham Island,
Wellesley Islands
The Wellesley Islands, also known as the North Wellesley Islands, is a group of islands off the coast of Far North Queensland, Australia, in the Gulf of Carpentaria. It is a locality within the Shire of Mornington local government area. The t ...
* Douglas Islet
*
Duncan Islands
The Duncan Islands are a group of islands in the Torres Strait Islands archipelago, northwest of the Bramble Channel of Torres Strait in Queensland, Australia. The islands are situated north of Thursday Island and approximately southwest of Bad ...
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Dunk Island
Dunk Island, known as ''Coonanglebah'' in the Warrgamay and Dyirbal languages, is an island within the locality of Dunk in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It lies off the Australian east coast, opposite the town of Missi ...
*
Eagle Island
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Ellis Island
Ellis Island is a federally owned island in New York Harbor, situated within the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey, that was the busiest immigrant inspection and processing station in the United States. From 1892 to 1954, nearly 12 mil ...
*
Ephraim Island
Ephraim Island is luxury residential development located in the suburb of Paradise Point in the north of Gold Coast, Australia. The development is a joint-venture between Lewis Land and Mirvac. The island has an area of 9.6 hectares and was once ...
*
Esk Island
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Eclipse Island
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Fantome Island
Fantome Island is one of the islands in the Palm Island group. It is neighboured by Great Palm Island and is north-east of Townsville, Queensland on the east coast of Australia. The island is small with an area of and is surrounded by a fri ...
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Falcon Island
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Fisher Island
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Fisher, Fishers or The Fisher may also refer to:
Places
Australia
* Division of Fisher, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in Queensland
* Ele ...
*
Fisherman Island[
* Fitzroy Island
* Fly Island
* ]Frankland Islands
Frankland Group is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 1353 km northwest of Brisbane. The five continental islands of the Frankland Group are High Island, Normanby Island, Mabel Island, Round Island and Russell Island, which lie ...
** Russell Island
* K'gari
Fraser Island (Butchulla: ) is a World Heritage-listed island along the south-eastern coast in the Wide Bay–Burnett region, Queensland, Australia. The island is approximately north of the state capital, Brisbane, and is within the Fraser ...
, the largest sand island in the world
* Goold Island
* Gore Island
* Great Keppel Island
Great Keppel Island (''Woppaburra, Wop-Pa, Wapparaburra'') lies from the coast off Yeppoon in the Shire of Livingstone, Queensland, Australia. It is part of the Capricorn Coast of Central Queensland. The island's traditional owners are the Wo ...
* Great Palm Island
Great Palm Island, usually known as Palm Island, is the largest island in the Palm Islands group off Northern Queensland, Australia. It is known for its Aboriginal community, the legacy of an Aboriginal reserve, the Palm Island Aboriginal Sett ...
* Green Island
* Haggerston Island
* Hales Island
* Hannibal Islands
* Harvey Island
* Heron Island
* High Island
Geologically, a high island or volcanic island is an island of volcanic origin. The term can be used to distinguish such islands from low islands, which are formed from sedimentation or the uplifting of coral reefs (which have often formed ...
* Hinchinbrook Island
Hinchinbrook Island (or Pouandai to the Biyaygiri people) is an island in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It lies east of Cardwell and north of Lucinda, separated from the north-eastern coast of Queensland by the narrow H ...
* Horseshoe Island
* Houghton Island
* Hudson Island
Hudson Island is the southernmost island of the Family Islands group and located approximately 20 km East of Tully Heads. The Aboriginal name for this island is ''Coolah Island''.
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
The Gre ...
* Jessie Island
Jessie Island is about 80 km north of Dunk Island and east of the Cowley Beach Training area (established 1977) and north of the South Barnard Islands.
Jessie Island is north of Kent Island and is part of the North Barnard Islands. It is ...
* Kangaroo Island
Kangaroo Island, also known as Karta Pintingga (literally 'Island of the Dead' in the language of the Kaurna people), is Australia's third-largest island, after Tasmania and Melville Island. It lies in the state of South Australia, southwest ...
* Kent Island
Kent Island is the largest island in the Chesapeake Bay and a historic place in Maryland. To the east, a narrow channel known as the Kent Narrows barely separates the island from the Delmarva Peninsula, and on the other side, the island is sep ...
* King Island
* Kumboola Island
* Lady Elliot Island
Lady Elliot Island is the southernmost coral cay of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. The island lies north-east of Bundaberg and covers an area of approximately . It is part of the Capricorn and Bunker Group of islands and is owned by the C ...
* Lady Musgrave Island
Lady Musgrave Island is a coral cay on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, with a surrounding reef. The island is the second southernmost island in the Great Barrier Reef chain of islands (with the first (southernmost) being Lady Elliot Island). T ...
* Leggatt Island
* Lindquist Island
* Lizard Island
Lizard Island is an island on the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland (Australia), northwest of Brisbane and part of the Lizard Island Group that also includes Palfrey Island. It is part of the Lizard Island National Park. Lizard Island is within ...
* Lloyd Island
Lloyd Island is an island in the Aboriginal Shire of Lockhart River, Queensland, Australia.
Geography
Lloyd Island is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in Lloyd Bay between Lockhart River and Cape Direction
A cape is a clothi ...
* Low Island
Geologically, a low island is an island of coral origin. The term applies whether the island was formed as a result of sedimentation upon a coral reef or of the uplifting of such islands. The term is used to distinguish such islands from high ...
* Low Wooded Island
* Mabel Island
* Makepeace Island
* Magnetic Island
Magnetic Island ( Wulguru: Yunbenun) is an island offshore from the city of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. This mountainous island in Cleveland Bay has effectively become a suburb of Townsville, with 2,335 permanent residents. The islan ...
* Milman Islet
* Moreton Island
Moreton Island (Mulgumpin) is an island on the eastern side of Moreton Bay on the coast of South East Queensland, Australia. The Coral Sea lies on the east coast of the island. Moreton Island lies northeast of the Queensland capital, Brisban ...
* Mornington Island
Mornington Island, also known as Kunhanhaa, is an island in the Gulf of Carpentaria in the Shire of Mornington, Queensland, Australia. It is the northernmost and largest of 22 islands that form the Wellesley Islands group. The largest town, ...
* Morris Island
* Mudjimba Island
Mudjimba is a coastal suburb in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia, and forms part of the Maroochydore urban centre. In the , Mudjimba had a population of 2,540 people.
Geography
The suburb is bounded by Mudjimba Beach on the ...
* Murdock Island
* Nigger Head
* Newton Island
* Nob Island
* Noble Island
Noble Island is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in the Howick Group National Park and is about 100 km south-east of Cape Melville, Queensland. It is around 30 hectares or 0.3 square km in size.
It was the home of the indigenous ...
* Normanby Island
* North Direction Island
* North Stradbroke Island
North Stradbroke Island ( Jandai: ''Minjerribah''), colloquially ''Straddie'' or ''North Straddie'', is an island that lies within Moreton Bay in the Australian state of Queensland, southeast of the centre of Brisbane. Originally there was onl ...
* Northumberland Islands
The Northumberland Islands are a scattered island chain off the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia.
Geography and history
The Northumberland Islands are to the south-east of the city of Mackay roughly between the latitudes 21°S and 22 ...
** Bedwell Group
** Beverley Group
** Broad Sound Islands
** Duke Islands
** Flat Isles
** Guardfish Cluster
** Percy Isles
* Orpheus Island
Orpheus Island National Park is a national park on Orpheus Island, in North Queensland, Australia. The Aboriginal (possibly Nyawaygi) name for this island is Goolboddi Island. It is one of the Palm Islands group, northwest of Brisbane, as is ...
* Paddy Island
* Pains Island
* Palfrey Island
* Peel Island
Peel Island (Indigenous, Janday: ''Teerk Roo Ra'', also and more phonetically spelled 'Jercuruba' or 'Jercroobai' ) is a small heritage-listed island located in Moreton Bay, east of Brisbane, in South East Queensland, Australia. The island i ...
* Pelorus Island
Pelorus Island, also known as North Palm Island, is the northernmost island of the Great Palm Island group. It is located north of Orpheus Island, and covers an area of about .
Prior to the arrival of Europeans, Orpheus Island was inhabited ...
* Pentecost Island
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It lies due north of capital Port Vila. Pentecost Island is known as in French and in Bislama. The island was known in its native languages by ...
* Percy Island
* Perry Island
* Pigeon Island
* Pincushion Island
* Pipon Island
* Prince of Wales Island
* Pumpkin Island
Pumpkin Island is a privately owned island in Keppel Bay on the southern Great Barrier Reef in Australia.[Raine Island
Raine Island is a vegetated coral cay in total area situated on the outer edges of the Great Barrier Reef off north-eastern Australia. It lies approximately north-northwest of Cairns in Queensland, about east-north-east of Cape Grenville on ...]
* Restoration Island
* Rocky Island
* Rocky Point Island
* Rodney Island
* Round Island
* St Helena Island
* Shaw Island
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* Sherrard Island
Sherrard Island is an island in the Aboriginal Shire of Lockhart River in Queensland, Australia.
Geography
It is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park north-west of Cape Melville, Queensland and north-east of Coen between the first op ...
* Sir Charles Hardy Islands
* The Sisters
* Sisters Islands
* Snapper Island
* South Direction Island
* South Stradbroke Island
The South Stradbroke Island (Indigenous: ''Minjerribah''), colloquially ''South Straddie'', is an island that lies within Moreton Bay in the Australian state of Queensland, south of Brisbane and forms the northern end of Gold Coast. The island ...
* Southern Moreton Bay Islands
The Southern Moreton Bay Islands, abbreviated as the ''SMBI'', also known as the ''Bay Islands'', or the ''RKLM'', are the four inhabited southern Moreton Bay islands located in South East Queensland, Australia. The group is part of the Redland ...
** Russell Island
** Macleay Island
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** Perulpa Island (connected to Macleay Island by causeway)
** Lamb Island
** Karragarra Island
* Saibai Island
Saibai Island, often shortened to just Saibai ( mwp, Saybay), is an island of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago, located in the Torres Strait of Queensland, Australia. The island is situated north of the Australian mainland and south o ...
, in the Torres Strait
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* Stephens Island
* Struck Island
* Sunday Island
* Sunter Island
* Sweers Island
* Talbot Islands
* Tern Island
* Thomson Islet
* Thorpe Island
Thorpe Island is one of the middle islands of the Family Islands group within the locality of Dunk in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland. Australia. It is about 15 km east of Tully Heads. It is also known as Timana Island.
In 1770 ...
* Three Islands
* The Three Sisters
** Sue Islet
* Torres Strait Islands
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* Trochus Island
Trochus Island is an island of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago, located in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, east of Cape York Peninsula, in Queensland, Australia.
The island is located in Newcastle Bay at the mouth of Escape River and ...
* Turtle Group
* Watson Island
* Wellesley Islands
The Wellesley Islands, also known as the North Wellesley Islands, is a group of islands off the coast of Far North Queensland, Australia, in the Gulf of Carpentaria. It is a locality within the Shire of Mornington local government area. The t ...
** North Wellesley Islands ( Mornington, Moondalbee, Lingnoonganee, Pisonia, Lingeleah, Beahgoo, Jinke, Sydney, Tulburrerr, Denham, and Andrew Islands)
**South Wellesley Islands
The South Wellesley Islands is an island group and locality in the Gulf of Carpentaria within the Shire of Mornington, Queensland, Australia. The group is separate from the Wellesley Islands.
Bentinck Island is the only one known to have ...
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Buildings
* Allen Arena, an indoor arena at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee
* Allen Center, a skyscraper complex in downtown Houston, Texas
* Allen Fieldhouse, an indoor sports arena on the Unive ...
, Horseshoe, Albinia, Bentinck, Fowler, and Sweers Islands)
**West Wellesley Islands
The West Wellesley Islands, also referred to as the Forsyth Islands, is an island group and locality in the Gulf of Carpentaria within the Shire of Mornington, Queensland, Australia. The group lies to the south-west of the Wellesley Islands, c ...
(Forsyth, Ivis, Pains, and Bayley Island
Bayley Island is one of the West Wellesley Islands, on the eastern side of the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, Australia. It is within the Shire of Mornington.
Geography
The island is located northwest of the mainland, and less than sout ...
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* Wheeler Island
* Whitsunday Islands
The Whitsunday Islands are 74 continental islands of various sizes off the central coast of Queensland, Australia, north of Brisbane. The northernmost of the islands are off the coast by the town of Bowen, while the southernmost islands are ...
** Daydream Island
Daydream Island is one of seven islands of the Molle Islands, Molle Group, a sub-group of the Whitsunday Islands in Queensland, Australia. The island is small, measuring 1 km in length and 400 m at its widest point. The highest point on ...
** Dent Island
** Hamilton Island
** Hayman Island
Hayman Island is the most northerly of the Whitsunday Islands, off the coast of Central Queensland in the locality of Whitsundays in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. The island is . It is a private island open to the public, most ...
** Hook Island
Hook Island is one of the Whitsunday Islands off the coast of the Australian state of Queensland. The island is almost uninhabited, quite rugged and almost completely contained within a section of the Whitsunday Islands National Park. The isl ...
** Keswick Island
Keswick Island is an island in the southern half of the Whitsunday Islands. Located 34 kilometres north-east of the Queensland city of Mackay, Keswick Island is part of the Cumberland Islands of islands that lay protected inside the waters of t ...
** Lindeman Island
Lindeman Island is an island in the Lindeman Group of the Whitsunday Islands off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The island was named by Captain Bedwell after his sub-lieutenant, George Sidney Lindeman whilst aboard the Royal Navy vessel ...
** Long Island
** South Molle Island
** Whitsunday Island
Whitsunday Island is the largest island in the Whitsunday group of islands located off the coast of Central Queensland, Australia.
History
Whitsunday Island was inhabited by the sea-faring Ngaro people for around 8,000 years prior to British ...
* Wilson Island
* Woody Island
South Australia
Ocean islands
* Althorpe Islands
** Haystack Island
Haystack Island is an island located in Investigator Strait off the south coast of Yorke Peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia about south-west of Stenhouse Bay. Since 1972, it has been part of the Althorpe Islands Conservati ...
** Seal Island (Investigator Strait)
Seal Island is an island located in Investigator Strait off the south coast of Yorke Peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia about south south-west of Stenhouse Bay. Since 1972, it has been part of the Althorpe Islands Con ...
* Beatrice Islets
* Bicker Isles
* Bird Islands
* Boston Island
* Busby Islet
* Casuarina Islets
The Casuarina Islets ( French: Ilots du Cassuarina), also known as The Brothers, is a pair of islands located in the Great Australian Bight immediately off the south-west coast of Kangaroo Island in South Australia approximately south-west of ...
* Chinamans Hat Island
* Curlew Island
* Douglas Rock
* Entrance Island
* Gambier Islands
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* Garden Island
* Goose Island
* Granite Island
* Grantham Island
* Greenly Island
* Grindal Island
* Investigator Group
The Investigator Group is an archipelago in South Australia that consists of Flinders Island and five island groups located off the western coast of the Eyre Peninsula. It is named after by her commander, Matthew Flinders when he explore ...
** Flinders Island
Flinders Island, the largest island in the Furneaux Group, is a island in the Bass Strait, northeast of the island of Tasmania. Flinders Island was the place where the last remnants of aboriginal Tasmanian population were exiled by the colo ...
** Pearson Isles
Pearson Isles (also called the Pearson Islands, Pearson Group and Pearson Archipelago) is an island group located in the Australian state of South Australia about to west south-west of Cape Finniss on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula wit ...
*** Dorothee Island
Dorothee Island (french: Ile Dorothee) is an island in the Australian state of South Australia which is part of the Pearson Isles which itself is part of the larger island grouping known as the Investigator Group. It is located about west so ...
*** Pearson Island
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*** Veteran Isles
** Topgallant Islands
** Waldegrave Islands
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** Ward Islands
* Jones Island
* Kangaroo Island
Kangaroo Island, also known as Karta Pintingga (literally 'Island of the Dead' in the language of the Kaurna people), is Australia's third-largest island, after Tasmania and Melville Island. It lies in the state of South Australia, southwest ...
, Australia's third-largest island
* Liguanea Island
Liguanea Island is an uninhabited granite island in the Australian state of South Australia located 3.7 km south of Cape Carnot at the southern, central point of Eyre Peninsula. It is approximately 2.7 km long, 180 ha in size its eleva ...
* Lipson Island
* Louth Island
Louth Island ( Nauo: ''Jorunu'' or ''Yoruna'') is a 135 ha island located in Louth Bay, Spencer Gulf, South Australia. The island is privately owned, and has previously been used for the grazing of sheep and mining of guano. The island has an o ...
* Neptune Islands
The Neptune Islands consist of two groups of islands located close to the entrance to Spencer Gulf in South Australia. They are well known as a venue for great white shark tourism.
Description
The Neptune Islands consists of two groups of is ...
* Nicolas Baudin Island
Nicolas Baudin Island is an island in the Australia, Australian state of South Australia about west of Cape Blanche on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula about south south-west of the town of Streaky Bay, South Australia, Streaky Bay. The isla ...
* Nobby Islet
Nobby Islet (also known as Knobby Island and Nobby Island) is an islet located in the Great Australian Bight off the south coast of Kangaroo Island in the Australian state of South Australia approximately south-west of Kingscote. It is curren ...
* Nuyts Archipelago
The Nuyts Archipelago is an island group located in South Australia in the Great Australian Bight to the south of the town of Ceduna on the west coast of the Eyre Peninsula. It consisting of mostly granitic islands and reefs that prov ...
** St Francis Island
St Francis Island (originally in Dutch: ''Eyland St. François'') is an island on the south coast of South Australia near Ceduna. It is part of the Nuyts Archipelago. It was one of the first parts of South Australia to be discovered and named ...
** St Peter Island
** Smooth Island
* Middle Island
* Owen Island
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The South Shet ...
* Paisley Islet
Paisley Islet (also known as West Bay Islet) is an islet located in the Great Australian Bight immediately off the west coast of Kangaroo Island in South Australia approximately west south-west of Kingscote. It is currently part of the Flinde ...
* Pelorus Islet
Pelorus Islet (also known as Pelorus Reef and Pelorus Rock) is an islet in the Australian state of South Australia located in Great Australian Bight off the south coast of Kangaroo Island approximately east south-east of Cape Gantheaume. It ...
* Pullen Island
* Rabbit Island, Coffin Bay
* Rabbit Island, Louth Bay
* Rabbit Islet, Pelican Lagoon
* Royston Island
Royston Island (also known as North Island) is an island in the Australian state of South Australia at the northern end of Pondalowie Bay on the south-west extremity of Yorke Peninsula about north-west of the town of Stenhouse Bay. The isla ...
* St Francis Island
St Francis Island (originally in Dutch: ''Eyland St. François'') is an island on the south coast of South Australia near Ceduna. It is part of the Nuyts Archipelago. It was one of the first parts of South Australia to be discovered and named ...
* St Peter Island
* Shag Island
* Sir Joseph Banks Group
The Sir Joseph Banks Group is an archipelago in the Australian state of South Australia located in Spencer Gulf about off the eastern coast of the Eyre Peninsula. It consists of 21 islands of which eighteen are in the Sir Joseph Banks Group Co ...
** Blyth Island
** Boucaut Island
Boucaut Island is a small, uninhabited island in the Sir Joseph Banks Group in South Australia's Spencer Gulf. It lies 1.2 km northeast of Spilsby Island. Seal Rock lies 250 metres southeast of Boucaut Island.
History
In 1902, the island w ...
** Dalby Island
Dalby may refer to:
Places and jurisdictions Australia
* Dalby, Queensland
** Borough of Dalby, a local government area for Dalby
** Town of Dalby, a local government area for Dalby
British Isles
*Dalby, Isle of Man
* Dalby, Lincolnshire
*Great ...
**Dangerous Reef
Dangerous Reef is an island and reef system located in the Spencer Gulf in the Australian state of South Australia about east-southeast of the city, Port Lincoln. It is the southernmost member of the Sir Joseph Banks Group. It has been the s ...
** Duffield Island
Duffield may refer to:
England
* Duffield, Derbyshire
* Duffield Castle, Derbyshire, a Norman castle in Duffield, Derbyshire
* Duffield Frith, in medieval times an area of Derbyshire
* North Duffield, a village in North Yorkshire
* South Duffield, ...
** English Island
** Hareby Island
** Kirkby Island
** Langton Island
Langton Island is a small, uninhabited island of the Sir Joseph Banks Group in Spencer Gulf, South Australia. The Island was named by Captain Matthew Flinders during his exploration of South Australia's coastline in 1802. Langton Island was named ...
** Lusby Island
** Marum Island
** Partney Island
** Reevesby Island
Reevesby Island is a small, uninhabited island in the Sir Joseph Banks group of islands in southern Spencer Gulf, South Australia. Since 2018, a group of volunteers now known as the Friends of Reevesby Island have been restoring the old homestead ...
** Roxby Island
** Seal Rock
** Sibsey Island
** Spilsby Island
Spilsby Island is one of the largest islands in the Sir Joseph Banks Group in Spencer Gulf, South Australia. It is privately owned, has no permanent human residents and is grazed by sheep. The island was used for the breeding of sheep by James Hun ...
** Stickney Island
** Winceby Island
* Seal Island (Encounter Bay)
* South Island
* Taylor Island
* Thistle Island
Thistle Island / Noondala is in the Spencer Gulf, South Australia, some west of Adelaide, and northwest of the Gambier Islands. The city of Port Lincoln lies to the northwest of the island. Between them, the Gambier Islands and Thistle form a ...
* Torrens Island
Torrens Island is an island in the Australian state of South Australia located in the Adelaide metropolitan area in the Port River Estuary about northwest of the  Adelaide city centre. Since European settlement of Adelaide in 1836, it has ...
* Troubridge Island
Troubridge Island is an island located in the south west corner of Gulf St Vincent in South Australia near the eastern edge of the Troubridge Shoals off the east coast of Yorke Peninsula about southeast by east of the town of Edithburgh It is ...
* Tumby Island
Tumby Island is a low bedrock island located 500 m east of the southern tip of Tumby Bay (Tumby Point) in Spencer Gulf, South Australia. The island is a conservation park comprising 35 hectares. The island can be accessed on foot at low tide by ...
* Unnamed island, Baird Bay
* Wardang Island
* Wedge Island
* Weeroona Island
* West Island
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* Wright Island
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Murray River islands
* Hindmarsh Island
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The island is a tourist destination, which has increased in popularity si ...
* Mundoo Island Mundoo is the name of several geographic localities:
* Mundoo, Queensland, a town in Australia
* Mundoo (Laamu Atoll), an island in the Maldives
* Mundoo Island, an island in Lake Alexandrina in South Australia
** Mundoo Island, South Australia ...
* Pomanda Island
* Rabbit Island, Coorong
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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 islet
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s) within the state of Tasmania; 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
Tasmania is the smallest and southernmost state of Australia. The Tasmanian mainland itself is an island, with an area of - 94.1% of the total land area of the state. The other islands have a combined area of , for a cumulative total of 99.75% o ...
.
* Bruny Island
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* Furneaux Island Group
** Anderson Island
**Babel Island
The Babel Island, part of the Babel Group within the Furneaux Group, is a granite island, located in Bass Strait, lying off the east coast of Flinders Island, Tasmania, south of Victoria, Australia. The privately owned island was named by Mat ...
**Badger Island
Badger Island, part of the Badger Group within the Furneaux Group, is a unpopulated low-lying granite and limestone island, located in Bass Strait, lying west of the Flinders and Cape Barren islands, Tasmania, south of Victoria, in south-ea ...
** Big Green Island
**Cape Barren Island
Cape Barren Island, officially truwana / Cape Barren Island, is a island in the Bass Strait, off the north east coast of Tasmania, Australia. It is the second largest island of the Furneaux Group; Flinders Island lies to the north, with th ...
** Clarke Island
** East Kangaroo Island
**Flinders Island
Flinders Island, the largest island in the Furneaux Group, is a island in the Bass Strait, northeast of the island of Tasmania. Flinders Island was the place where the last remnants of aboriginal Tasmanian population were exiled by the colo ...
** Goose Island
**Great Dog Island
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** Long Island
**Mount Chappell Island
The Mount Chappell Island, part of the Badger Group within the Furneaux Group, is a unpopulated granite island with a distinctive central hill, located in Bass Strait, lying west of the Flinders and Cape Barren islands, Tasmania, south of V ...
* Hogan Island
Hogan Island, the largest island of the Hogan Group, is a granite island, located in northern Bass Strait, that lies between the Furneaux Group in north-east Tasmania, and Wilsons Promontory in Victoria, Australia. The island has a maximum ele ...
* Hunter Island Group
The Hunter Island, the main island of the Hunter Island Group, is a island, located in Bass Strait, that lies between King Island and north-west Tasmania, Australia.
The island is located near Three Hummock Island, several kilometres off the ...
** Hunter Island
** Robbins Island
** Three Hummock Island
The Three Hummock Island, part of the Hunter Island Group, is a granite island, located in the Bass Strait near King Island, lying off the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia.
The island is named after its three most prominent hills, Nor ...
* Kent Island Group
** Deal Island
** Dover Island
** Erith Island
* King Island
* Maatsuyker Islands Group
** Chicken Island
** De Witt Island
** Maatsuyker Island
* Macquarie Island
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* Maria Island
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** Ile du Nord
* Partridge Island
* Petrel Island Group
** Big Sandy Petrel Island
** Big Stony Petrel Island
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Fauna
Recorded breedin ...
** Little Stony Petrel Island
** South West Petrel Island
** Kangaroo Island
Kangaroo Island, also known as Karta Pintingga (literally 'Island of the Dead' in the language of the Kaurna people), is Australia's third-largest island, after Tasmania and Melville Island. It lies in the state of South Australia, southwest ...
** Howie Island
* Picnic Island
* Robbins Island
** Walker Island (northwest)
* Rodondo Island
Rodondo Island is a granite island, part of the Rodondo Group, lying in northern Bass Strait, within the state boundaries of Tasmania, Australia. The island is located only south of Wilsons Promontory in Victoria, and 2' of latitude () south ...
* Schouten Island
Schouten Island (formerly Schouten's Isle), part of the Schouten Island Group, is an island with an area of approximately lying close to the eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia, located south of the Freycinet Peninsula and is a part of Fre ...
* Sloping Island Group
** Sloping Island
Sloping Island, incorporating the adjacent Sloping Reef, is an island nature reserve, with an area of 117 ha, in Tasmania in south-eastern Australia. It is part of the Sloping Island Group, lying close to the south-eastern coast of Tasmania a ...
** Smooth Island (Tasmania)
Smooth Island, is a privately owned island with an area of lying close to the south-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia. The island is part of the Sloping Island Group situated in Norfolk Bay and surrounded by the Tasman Peninsula, Tasman and ...
*Waterhouse Island Group
** Swan Island
** Waterhouse Island
Victoria
* Anser Island
Anser Island lies off the southern tip of Wilsons Promontory in Victoria, Australia.
The island is within Wilsons Promontory National Park. The surrounding waters to the mean high-water mark are within Wilsons Promontory Marine National Park. ...
* Barrallier Island
Barrallier Island is a very small uninhabited island located northwest of French Island in Victoria, Australia.
The island is shown on the chart of Western Port based on the 1801 survey by James Grant in .
The island is named after Francis Ba ...
* Bennison Island
* Chinaman Island
* Churchill Island
Churchill Island is a island in Western Port, Victoria, Australia. It is connected by a bridge to Phillip Island, which is in turn connected to the mainland by another bridge. It is the site of the first European garden in Victoria. It contain ...
* Corner Island
* Duck Island
* Elizabeth Island
* French Island
* Gabo Island
Gabo Island is a island located off the coast of eastern Victoria, Australia, between Mallacoota and Cape Howe on the border with New South Wales. It is separated from the mainland by a wide channel; access is available by arranged flights an ...
* Griffiths Island
* Joe Island
* Kanowna Island
* Lady Julia Percy Island
Lady Julia Percy Island, known as ''Deen Maar'' or ''Dhinmar'' in the Gunditjmara language, lies off the coast, in the Barwon South West region of Victoria, Australia in Bass Strait. The island is an Unincorporated areas of Australia, unincorpo ...
* Mud Islands
The Mud Islands reserve is located within Port Phillip, about south-west of Melbourne, Australia, lying inside Port Phillip Heads, north of Portsea and east of Queenscliff. The land area of about is made up of three low-lying islands sur ...
* Norman Island
* Phillip Island
Phillip Island ( Boonwurrung: ''Corriong'', ''Worne'' or ''Millowl'') is an Australian island about south-southeast of Melbourne, Victoria. The island is named after Governor Arthur Phillip, the first Governor of New South Wales, by explore ...
* Raymond Island
* Rotamah Island
* Sandstone Island
Sandstone Island is a small island located approximately one kilometre southeast of the Hastings foreshore in Western Port, Victoria, Australia. Sandstone Island has an area of approximately 19 hectares and is adjacent to Jacks Beach. The islan ...
* Shellback Island
The Shellback Island, an oceanic island, is approximately northwest of Darby Bay, off Wilsons Promontory in Victoria, Australia.
The island, to the mean low-water mark, is part of the Wilsons Promontory National Park and is proclaimed as a ...
* Snake Island
* Sunday Island
* Swan Island
* Tullaberga Island
* Mangrove Islet
River islands
* Beveridge Island
* Coode Island
Coode Island is a former island at the convergence of the Yarra and Maribyrnong Rivers, 4 km west of central Melbourne, Australia. The island was formed by the excavation of the Coode Canal in 1887, and became connected to the mainland ...
* Gunbower Island
Gunbower is a town in northern Victoria, Australia. The town is located in the Shire of Campaspe, north of the state capital, Melbourne on the banks of Gunbower Creek
Gunbower is a town in northern Victoria, Australia. The town is located in ...
* Herring Island
* Jordan's Island
* Pental Island
Pental Island is an island and rural locality in Victoria, Australia, bordering Swan Hill, Victoria in the north. The island is bounded by the Murray River in the north and the Little Murray River in the south; the Little Murray diverging from ...
Western Australia
Over 1,000 islands have been gazetted – only the island groups and major islands are listed.
* Ashmore Reef
* Barrow Island Barrow Island may refer to:
* Barrow Island (Western Australia), Australia
* Barrow Island (Queensland), Australia
* Barrow Island, Barrow-in-Furness
Barrow Island is an area and electoral ward of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. Origina ...
* Bonaparte Archipelago
The Bonaparte Archipelago is a group of islands off the coast of Western Australia in the Kimberley region, within the Shire of Wyndham-East Kimberley. The closest inhabited place is Kalumburu located about to the east of the island group. T ...
* Buccaneer Archipelago
The Buccaneer Archipelago is a group of islands off the coast of Western Australia near the town of Derby in the Kimberley region. The closest inhabited place is Bardi located about from the western end of the island group.
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** Cockatoo Island
* Cape Leeuwin Islands
* Carnac Island
Carnac Island (Noongar: ''Ngoorloormayup'') is a , A Class, island nature reserve about south-west of Fremantle and north of Garden Island in Western Australia.
History
Carnac Island is aeolianite limestone remnant of Pleistocene dunes. It ...
* Dampier Archipelago
The Dampier Archipelago is a group of 42 islands near the town of Dampier in the Pilbara, Western Australia.
The archipelago is also made up of reefs, shoals, channels and straits and is the traditional home of five Aboriginal language group ...
* Dirk Hartog Island
A dirk is a long bladed thrusting dagger.Chisholm, Hugh (ed.), ''Dagger'', The Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed., Vol. VII, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press (1910), p. 729 Historically, it gained its name from the Highland Dirk (Scot ...
* Garden Island
* Houtman Abrolhos
The Houtman Abrolhos (often called the Abrolhos Islands) is a chain of 122 islands and associated coral reefs, in the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia, about west of Geraldton, Western Australia. It is the southernmost true coral ...
** Easter Group
The Easter Group is the central of three groups of islands that make up the Houtman Abrolhos island chain. The group measures about 20 kilometres by 12 kilometres, and consists of a number of islands including
* Rat Island
* W ...
** Pelsaert Group
The Pelsaert Group is the southernmost of the three groups of islands that make up the Houtman Abrolhos island chain. it consists of a number of islands, the largest of which are Gun Island, Middle Island, and Pelsaert Island. The g ...
** Wallabi Group
The Wallabi Group is the northernmost group of islands in the Houtman Abrolhos off the western coast of Western Australia. it is from the Australian mainland, and about from the Easter Group.
The group consists of a numbe ...
* Lacepede Islands
The Lacepede Islands, sometimes referred to simply as the Lacepedes, are a group of four islands lying off the Kimberley (Western Australia), Kimberley coast of Western Australia, about north of Broome, Western Australia, Broome.
They are a ...
* Lowendal Islands
* Mary Anne Group
* Montebello Islands
The Montebello Islands, also rendered as the Monte Bello Islands, are an archipelago of around 174 small islands (about 92 of which are named) lying north of Barrow Island and off the Pilbara coast of north-western Australia. The islands f ...
* Recherché Archipelago
* Rottnest Island
Rottnest Island ( nys, Wadjemup), often colloquially referred to as "Rotto", is a island off the coast of Western Australia, located west of Fremantle. A sandy, low-lying island formed on a base of aeolianite limestone, Rottnest is an A-class ...
* Rowley Shoals
The Rowley Shoals is a group of three atoll-like coral reefs south of the Timor Sea, about west of Broome on the northwestern Australian coast, centered on , on the edge of one of the widest continental shelves in the world. Each atoll cover ...
* Scott and Seringapatam Reefs
Scott and Seringapatam Reefs is a group of atoll-like reefs in the Timor Sea more than northwest of Cape Leveque, Western Australia, on the edge of the continental shelf. There are three or four separate reef structures, depending on whether Sc ...
* Shark Bay islands
* Wedge Island
Australian territories
Jervis Bay Territory
* Bowen Island
Bowen Island (originally Nex̱wlélex̱m in Sḵwx̱wú7mesh), British Columbia, is an island municipality that is part of Metro Vancouver. Bowen Island is within the jurisdiction of the Islands Trust. Located in Howe Sound, it is approximate ...
Australian Capital Territory
* Kingston Island
* Pine Island
* Queen Elizabeth II Island
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Queen Elizabeth II Island, formerly Aspen Island, is an artificial island located within Lake Burley Griffin, in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. It lies within the Parliamentary Triangle.
The island is located on ...
* Spinnaker Island
* Springbank Island
Springbank Island is an island located on Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Springbank Island is named after a former agricultural property that was partially submerged to create Lake Burley Griffin. An elevated part ...
External territories
* Ashmore and Cartier Islands
* Australian Antarctic Territory
The Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT) is a part of East Antarctica claimed by Australia as an external territory. It is administered by the Australian Antarctic Division, an agency of the federal Department of Climate Change, Energy, the En ...
** Achernar Island
** Masson Island
Masson Island or Mission Island is an ice-covered island about long and rising to , lying northwest of Henderson Island within the Shackleton Ice Shelf. Masson Island is located in the western part of Mawson Sea at and has an elevation of . ...
** Hawker Island
Hawker Island is an irregularly shaped island about long, lying some 7 km south-west of Davis Station between Mule Island and Mule Peninsula, Vestfold Hills, in the eastern part of Prydz Bay, Antarctica. It was mapped by Norwegian cartograp ...
** Frazier Islands
** Giganteus Island
Giganteus Island lies just north of the Rookery Islands in the west part of Holme Bay, MacRobertson Land. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37. A giant petrel (''Macronectes gigan ...
* Christmas Island
Christmas Island, officially the Territory of Christmas Island, is an Australian external territory comprising the island of the same name. It is located in the Indian Ocean, around south of Java and Sumatra and around north-west of the ...
* Cocos (Keeling) Islands
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** Horsburgh Island
** Home Island
Home Island, also known locally as Pulu Selma, is one of only two permanently inhabited islands of the 26 islands of the Southern Atoll of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian external territory in the central-eastern Indian Ocean.
Des ...
** North Keeling Island
North Keeling is a small, uninhabited coral atoll, approximately in area, about north of Horsburgh Island. It is the northernmost atoll and island of the Australian territory of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. It consists of just one C-shaped i ...
** West Island
The West Island () is the unofficial name given to the cities, towns and boroughs at the western end of the Island of Montreal, in Quebec, Canada. It is generally considered to consist of the Lakeshore municipalities of Dorval, Pointe-Cla ...
* Coral Sea Islands
**Cato Island
** Elizabeth Reef
Elizabeth Reef, located at is a coral reef in the Coral Sea. The reef is separated by a deep oceanic pass, some 47 km wide, from nearby Middleton Reef, both of which are part of the underwater plateau known as the Lord Howe Rise. It ...
** Middleton Reef
Middleton Reef is a coral reef in the Coral Sea. It is separated by a deep oceanic pass some 47 km wide from nearby Elizabeth Reef, forming part of the Lord Howe Rise underwater plateau. It is around 230 km from Lord Howe Island and ...
** Willis Island
* Heard Island and McDonald Islands
The Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) is an Australian external territory comprising a volcanic group of mostly barren Antarctic islands, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica. The group's overall size ...
* Norfolk Island
** Nepean Island
** Phillip Island
Phillip Island ( Boonwurrung: ''Corriong'', ''Worne'' or ''Millowl'') is an Australian island about south-southeast of Melbourne, Victoria. The island is named after Governor Arthur Phillip, the first Governor of New South Wales, by explore ...
See also
* List of islands
This is a list of the lists of islands in the world grouped by country, by continent, by body of water
A body of water or waterbody (often spelled water body) is any significant accumulation of water on the surface of Earth or another plan ...
* List of islands in the Pacific Ocean
Collectively called the Pacific Islands, the islands in the Pacific Ocean are further categorized into three major island groups: Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Depending on the context, the term ''Pacific Islands'' may refer to one of se ...
* List of islands in the Indian Ocean
* List of islands of Asia
This is a list of the lists of islands in the world grouped by country, by continent, by body of water
A body of water or waterbody (often spelled water body) is any significant accumulation of water on the surface of Earth or another plane ...
* List of Torres Strait Islands
The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands in the Torres Strait between Queensland, Australia and Papua New Guinea.
This is a list of the named islands and island groups in the Torres Strait. In addition there are u ...
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