Clack Island is part of 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 ...
at the tip of
Cape Melville
Cape Melville is a headland on the eastern coast of the Cape York Peninsula in Australia. To its west lies Princess Charlotte Bay. It is part of the Cape Melville National Park. Cape Melville was named Stoney Cape in 1815 by Lieutenant Charles ...
, Queensland in
Bathurst Bay,
Australia.
It is north-east of
Denham Island and
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 ...
in the
Flinders Group National Park. It is around 21 hectares or 0.21 square km in size,
Clack Island has a major place in
Aboriginal ritual and mythology, and also has a large number of paintings. It is the traditional centre for male ritual activities and is the resting-place of the two culture heroes,
Itjibiya and
Almbarrin, who are the dominant figures of traditional mythology in the region.
References
Islands on the Great Barrier Reef
Protected areas of Far North Queensland
Rock art in Australia
Uninhabited islands of Australia
Islands of Far North Queensland
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