Rattlesnake Island is one of the
island
An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...
s South of the
Great Palm Island
Great Palm Island, usually known as Palm Island, is the largest island in the Palm Islands group off Northern Queensland, Australia. It is known for its Aboriginal community, the legacy of an Aboriginal reserve, the Palm Island Aboriginal Sett ...
group, northwest of
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 ...
and directly east of
Rollingstone Rollingstone may refer to several locations:
* Rollingstone, Queensland, Australia
* Rollingstone, Minnesota, U.S.
* Rollingstone Creek
Rollingstone Creek is a stream in Winona County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota.
Rollingstone Creek is the f ...
in the
Halifax Bay, northern Queensland, Australia.
RAAF Base Townsville
RAAF Base Townsville (formerly RAAF Base Garbutt) is a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) air base located in , west of Townsville in Queensland, Australia. It is the headquarters for No. 1 Wing Australian Air Force Cadets and, along with L ...
(
No. 323 Combat Support Squadron RAAF) conducts live firing with
military aircraft
A military aircraft is any fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft that is operated by a legal or insurrectionary armed service of any type. Military aircraft can be either combat or non-combat:
* Combat aircraft are designed to destroy enemy equi ...
on regular occasions. When the RAAF are not live firing, they also conduct survival courses on the island.
September 1943 B-25 Mitchell crash
On 23 September 1943, a
B-25 Mitchell bomber crashed 3 miles off the island, while undergoing a live firing test.
See also
*
List of islands of Queensland
References
{{Great Palm Island group
Islands on the Great Barrier Reef
North Queensland