Noble Island is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in the

Howick Group National Park Howick Group is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 1,689 km northwest of Brisbane. Wildlife Wildlife consists of 152 species of plants and 118 species of animals, of which 15 are rare or endangered species. References See al ...

and is about 100 km south-east of Cape Melville, Queensland. It is around 30 hectares or 0.3 square km in size. It was the home of the indigenous Australian

Ithu The Ithu were an indigenous Australian people of the eastern coast of the Cape York Peninsula, northern Queensland. Country The Ithu's territory, including Noble Island, the adjacent reefs, and islands, such as Howick within the Howick island g ...

people. The island is 25 km east of

Howick Island The Howick Island is the southernmost and a now uninhabited island in the Howick group that is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in Far North Queensland, Australia. It fell within the territory of the Ithu people in pre-colonial tim ...

and home to

sea turtles Sea turtles (superfamily Chelonioidea), sometimes called marine turtles, are reptiles of the order Testudines and of the suborder Cryptodira. The seven existing species of sea turtles are the flatback, green, hawksbill, leatherback, loggerhead, ...

and sea pigeons.

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Islands on the Great Barrier Reef {{Queensland-national-park-stub

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