Frankland Group is a national park in Queensland,

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, 1353 km northwest of Brisbane. The five continental islands of the Frankland Group are High Island, Normanby Island,

Mabel Island Mabel Island in North Queensland, Australia is part of the Frankland Islands 30 km north-east of Babinda, and south-west of Cairns. It is around 3 hectares or 0.03 square km in size. The Frankland Islands are teeming with permanent and mi ...

, Round Island and Russell Island, which lie about 10 km offshore, and are about 45 km south east of

Cairns Cairns (, ) is a city in Queensland, Australia, on the tropical north east coast of Far North Queensland. The population in June 2019 was 153,952, having grown on average 1.02% annually over the preceding five years. The city is the 5th-most-p ...

. They are the traditional home of the Mandingalbay Yidinji, and the Gungandji Aboriginal peoples. On 9 June 1770, on the First voyage of James Cook, Cook named the island group after

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Sir Thomas Frankland, 5th Baronet (1718 – 1784). A large number of birds are supported here, including numerous seabirds, as well as pied imperial pigeons, fruit doves, varied honeyeaters, and white-breasted woodswallows.

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National parks of Far North Queensland Protected areas established in 1994 Islands of Far North Queensland 1994 establishments in Australia {{Queensland-national-park-stub

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