North and South Barrow Islands are a pair of islands within the
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park protects a large part of Australia's Great Barrier Reef from damaging activities. It is a vast multiple-use Marine Park which supports a wide range of uses, including commercial marine tourism, fishing, ports an ...
in
Ninian Bay, 90 km South East of
Cape Melville,
Queensland
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Australia.
The islands take their names from Barrow Point, a few hundred metres away, where a mine is located. Barrow Point in turn was named in May 1815 by Lieutenant Charles Jeffreys of the
HM Colonial brig ''Kangaroo'', probably after
John Barrow, the
Secretary to the Admiralty
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References
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Islands on the Great Barrier Reef
Uninhabited islands of Australia
Islands of Far North Queensland
Shire of Cook