Poll Islet, (also known as Guijar or Poll Island), is an Australian island in the center of the

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 ...

. It lies in the southern part of The Three Sisters island group and is located south off Sue Island, the middle and only inhabited island in The Three Sisters. It is within the

Guijar Islet Guijar Islet is an island locality in the Torres Strait Island Region, Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , ...

locality Locality may refer to: * Locality (association), an association of community regeneration organizations in England * Locality (linguistics) * Locality (settlement) * Suburbs and localities (Australia), in which a locality is a geographic subdivis ...

in the

Torres Strait Island Region The Torres Strait Island Region is a local government area in Far North Queensland, Australia, covering part of the Torres Strait Islands. It was created in March 2008 out of 15 autonomous Island Councils during a period of statewide local gove ...

local government area. Poll Islet has a surface area of about 11

hectare The hectare (; SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm2), or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land. There are 100 hectares in one square kilometre. An acre is a ...

s, and is enclosed by a 5 km² oval-shaped

coral reef A coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals. Reefs are formed of colonies of coral polyps held together by calcium carbonate. Most coral reefs are built from stony corals, whose polyps cluster in groups. Co ...

known as the ''Poll Islet Reef''.

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{{Reflist Uninhabited islands of Australia Islands of Queensland Islands of the Pacific Ocean Torres Strait Islands Torres Strait Island Region

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