Denham Island is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park at the tip of Cape Melville, Queensland in

Bathurst Bay Bathurst Bay is a bay in the localities of Lakefield and Starcke in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. In the 19th century it was the base for the pearling fleet. It is now a tourist attraction on Cape York Peninsula in northern Que ...

. It is the southernmost island in the Flinders Group National Park. It is south of Flinders Island. It is around 390 hectares or 3.9 square km in size. Aboriginal mythology ( Cooktown) states Denham Island as a major Moon-Myth site, believed to have been originally joined to Bathurst Heads but later pushed out by the moon.

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Islands on the Great Barrier Reef Uninhabited islands of Australia Islands of Far North Queensland Protected areas of Far North Queensland {{Queensland-national-park-stub