This is a list of selected Australian islands grouped by
State or Territory.
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by ...
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,
South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, 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 o ...
(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,
Queensland
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, map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia
, subdivision_type = Country
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, established_title = Before federation
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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 (Qld), .
New South Wales
![Lord Howe Island from North](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Lord_Howe_Island_from_North.jpg)
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Amherst Island
Amherst Island is located in Lake Ontario, west of Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Amherst Island, being wholly in Lake Ontario, is upstream, above the St Lawrence River Thousand Islands. The Island is part of Loyalist Township in Lennox and Addingt ...
, 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, at the mouth of Port Stephens
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Brisbane Water:
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Pelican Island
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Riley's Island
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St Hubert's Island (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, located off the coast at
Broulee
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Brush Island
The Brush Island is a continental island, contained within the Brush Island Nature Reserve, a protected nature reserve, known as Mit Island in the Dhurga language of the Murramamrang people of the Yuin nation see (http://press-files.anu.edu.au/ ...
, off Bawley Point
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Cabbage Tree Island, 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
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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
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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, 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 Elizabeth Island may refer to:
* Elizabeth Island (Alaska)
* Elizabeth Island, Bahamas
* Elizabeth Island, Bermuda
* Elizabeth Island (Georgian Bay)
* Elizabeth Island, Michigan
* Elizabeth Island, New Zealand
* Elizabeth Island (Victoria)
* ...
, 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, in the Macleay River near Smithtown
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Fort Denison, also known as ''Pinchgut''
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Five Islands Nature Reserve, 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 (no longer an island)
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Goat Island Goat Island (or Goat Islands) may refer to:
Arts
* Goat Island (performance group), a Chicago-based company
* ''Goat Island'' (play), ''Delitto all'isola delle capre'', by Ugo Betti
Places
Australia
* Goat Island (Port Jackson) in Sydney Harbou ...
, 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 op ...
:
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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, in the lower Hunter River
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Lake Eucumbene:
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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
Long Island is a densely populated island in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of New York, part of the New York metropolitan area. With over 8 million people, Long Island is the most populous island in the United States and the 18 ...
, 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 Po ...
, 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. B ...
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Admiralty Group
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Manning River estuary:
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Cabbage Tree Island
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Dumaresq Island
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Mitchell's Island
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Oxley Island
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Merriman Island, in Wallaga Lake
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Milson Island, 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
Coffs Harbour is a city on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, north of Sydney, and south of Brisbane. It is one of the largest urban centres on the North Coast, with a population of 78,759 as per 2021 census. The Gumbaynggirr ...
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Newry Island
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Newry ...
, 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 Victori ...
, in Richmond River near Wardell
*''Pinchgut'' - see
Fort Denison, a former penal site and defensive facility in Sydney Harbour
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Pulbah Island, 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 ...
, 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 ...
, 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, 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 Susan Island is an island in the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada. To its west is Finlayson Channel; to its east Mathieson Channel. Roderick Island lies to its north and Dowager Island to its south. James Johnstone, one of George Vancouve ...
, 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, 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, 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
Burney Island is an island in the 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 ...
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Crocodile Islands
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Croker Island
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East Woody Island
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Elcho Island
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Goulburn Islands
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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
Howard Island is an island in the Arafura Sea, Northern Territory, Australia. It belongs to East Arnhem Region, and is evenly divided between ''Gumurr Gatjirrk Ward'' in the west and ''Gumurr Marthakal Ward'' in the east. The only settlements ...
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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
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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
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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
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Wessel Islands
Queensland
![Whitsunday Island - Whitehaven Beach 01](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Whitsunday_Island_-_Whitehaven_Beach_01.jpg)
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Acheron Island
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Agnes Island
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Albino Rock
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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 (QT ...
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Baird Island
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Barber Island
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Barrow Island
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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 sou ...
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Bedarra Island
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Beesley Island
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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.
The ...
[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
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Bountiful Islands
The Bountiful Islands are a group of small islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia, belonging to the state of Queensland and within the Shire of Mornington.
The islands cover an area of . They form an Important Bird Area b ...
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Bowden Island
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Boyne Island
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Brampton Island
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Bribie Island
Bribie Island is the smallest and most northerly of three major sand islands forming the coastline sheltering the northern part of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. The others are Moreton Island and North Stradbroke Island. Bribie Island i ...
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Brisk Island
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Brook Islands, three islands: North, Tween and Middle.
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Bourke Isles
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Bushy Island
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Bushy Islet
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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 th ...
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Crab Island
* Cordelia Rocks
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Coquet Island
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Curacoa Island
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Denham Island, Cape York Peninsula
* Denham Island,
Wellesley Islands
* Douglas Islet
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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 Ba ...
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Dunk Island
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Esk Island
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Eclipse Island
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Fantome Island
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Falcon Island
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Fisher Island
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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, 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
* Green Island
* Haggerston Island
* Hales Island
* Hannibal Islands
* Harvey Island
* Heron Island
* High Island
* Hinchinbrook Island
* 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 Gr ...
* Jessie Island
* Kangaroo Island
* 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 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). ...
* Leggatt Island
Leggatt Island is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and the easternmost island in the Cole Islands group and National Park and is about 100 km south-east of Cape Melville, Queensland.
Leggatt Island is a vegetated sand cay locat ...
* Lindquist Island
Lindquist Island is an island in Queensland, Australia. It is within the locality of Cowley Beach in Cassowary Coast Region. It forms part of the Cowley Beach Training Area military base.
Geography
The island is about 90 km north of Du ...
* 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 withi ...
* 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.
Lloyd Island is a ...
* 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 h ...
* Low Wooded Island
Low Wooded Island is the name of an island 30 km south-east of Cape Flattery in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and within the Three Islands National Park. The island is an important seabird nesting site. It is around 45 hect ...
* Mabel Island
* Makepeace Island
Makepeace Island is a small heart shaped island resort located in the Noosa River on Australia's Sunshine Coast. The island is currently owned by Virgin Australia (formerly known as Virgin Blue) founding partners, Brett Godfrey and Sir Richard B ...
* 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
* Morris Island
Morris Island is an 840-acre (3.4 km²) uninhabited island in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina, accessible only by boat. The island lies in the outer reaches of the harbor and was thus a strategic location in the American Civil War. The ...
* 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 Co ...
* Murdock Island
* Nigger Head
* Newton Island
* Nob Island
* Noble Island
* Normanby Island
* North Direction Island
* North Stradbroke Island
* 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
Pains Island is one of the West Wellesley Islands
The West Wellesley Islands, also referred to as the Forsyth Islands, is an island group and suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Gulf of Carpentaria within the Shire of Mornin ...
* 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 ...
* Pelorus Island
* Pentecost Island
Pentecost Island is one of the 83 islands that make up the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu.
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
Shaw Island is the smallest of the four San Juan Islands served by the Washington State Ferries. The island has a land area of and a small year-round population of 240 (United States Census, 2010, 2010 census). During the summer time, wee ...
* 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
Macleay Island is an island in Moreton Bay, South East Queensland, South East Queensland, Australia. The island constitutes a town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality within the Redland City, City of Redland. In the , the locality ...
** 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
The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands in the Torres Strait, a waterway separating far northern continental Australia's Cape York Peninsula and the island of New Guinea. They span an area of , but their total land ...
* 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
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* Wellesley Islands
** 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 ...
(Allen Allen, Allen's or Allens may refer to:
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
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, 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 sou ...
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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
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** 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
Pearson Island is an island located in the Australian state of South Australia within the Pearson Isles an island group located in the larger group known as the Investigator Group about southwest by west of Cape Finniss on the west coast ...
*** Veteran Isles
** Topgallant Islands
** Waldegrave Islands
Waldegrave Islands is an island group in the Australian state of South Australia located in the Investigator Group about northwest by west of Cape Finniss on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula. The group consists of Waldegrave Island, Little W ...
** Ward Islands
* Jones Island
* Kangaroo Island, 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
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** Lusby Island
** Marum Island
** Partney Island
** Reevesby Island
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** 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
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* 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
Wardang Island, also known as Waralti (also spelled Waraldi or Wauraltee) is a low-lying 20 km2 island in the Spencer Gulf close to the western coast of the Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. It acts as a natural breakwater, protecting the f ...
* 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
Tasmania
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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 ...
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* Bruny Island
Bruny Island ( Nuenonne: Lunawanna-alonnah) is a island located off the south-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia. The island is separated from the Tasmanian mainland by the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, and its east coast lies within the Tasman S ...
* Furneaux Island Group
** Anderson Island
**Babel Island
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**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
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** 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
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**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
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** 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
Big Stony Petrel Island is an island game reserve with an area of 7.2 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of the Petrel Island Group, lying in Bass Strait close to Walker and Robbins Islands in north-west Tasmania.
Fauna
Recorded breedin ...
** Little Stony Petrel Island
** South West Petrel Island
** Kangaroo Island
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** 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
The Sloping Island Group is a group of small islands in south-eastern Tasmania in Australia.
They lie close to the south-eastern coast of Tasmania around the Tasman and Forestier Peninsulas.Brothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; & Ha ...
** 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
Norman Island is an island at the southern tip of the British Virgin Islands archipelago. It is one of a number of islands reputed to be the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's pirate novel ''Treasure Island''.
History
It is said that ...
* 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 explorer ...
* Raymond Island
* Rotamah Island
Rotamah Island, or Gellung-warl in the Kurnai language, is a river island in The Lakes National Park, in the Gippsland Lakes of Victoria, Australia, about from Paynesville, from which it is accessible by boat.
Features
* Eucalypt and banks ...
* 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
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* Gunbower Island
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* Herring Island
* Jordan's Island
* Pental Island
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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
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* 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. Th ...
* 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.
, a new marine ...
** 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
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* Garden Island
* Houtman Abrolhos
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** 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
The Lowendal Islands comprise an archipelago, with a total area of about 160 ha of land lying off the coast of Western Australia. It is important for breeding seabirds.
Description
The archipelago lies 10 km north-east of the much l ...
* 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 (Western Australia), Barrow Island and off the Pilbara region of We ...
* 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
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* Shark Bay islands
* Wedge Island
Australian territories
Jervis Bay Territory
* Bowen Island
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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
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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 Env ...
** 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
Horsburgh Island (in Malay, Pulo Luar or Pulu Luar) is one of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Its area is . There is a small lagoon in the interior of the island to the northeast.
History
The Clunies-Ross Family kept deer on the island for hunting ...
** 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.
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** 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
The Coral Sea Islands Territory is an external territory of Australia which comprises a group of small and mostly uninhabited tropical islands and reefs in the Coral Sea, northeast of Queensland, Australia. The only inhabited island is W ...
**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 i ...
** 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 5 ...
** 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
Norfolk Island (, ; Norfuk: ''Norf'k Ailen'') is an external territory of Australia located in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and New Caledonia, directly east of Australia's Evans Head and about from Lord Howe Island. Together with ...
** 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 explorer ...
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 plane ...
* 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, and by other classifications. For rank-order lists, see the #Other lists of islands, other lists of islands below.
Lists of islands by countr ...
* 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 ...
References
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