Brisk Island is an

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Great Palm Island group Great may refer to: Descriptions or measurements * Great, a relative measurement in physical space, see Size * Greatness, being divine, majestic, superior, majestic, or transcendent People * List of people known as "the Great" *Artel Great (born ...

. The nearest island is

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 ...

, after which the group is named. The

Nyawaygi The Nyawigi people, also spelt Nyawaygi, Nywaigi, or Nawagi, are an Aboriginal Australian people whose original country was around Halifax Bay in Far North Queensland. They may also have inhabited Orpheus Island. Language An early record sugges ...

name for Brisk Island is ''Culgarool''. Along with nine of the other islands within the Palm Islands group, it falls under the local government area of the

Aboriginal Shire of Palm Island The Aboriginal Shire of Palm Island is a special local government area of Queensland, Australia, managed by the Palm Island Aboriginal Shire Council under a Deed of Grant in Trust granted to the community on 27 October 1986. The local council wa ...

. The island was gazetted as an

Aboriginal reserve An Aboriginal reserve, also called simply reserve, was a government-sanctioned settlement for Aboriginal Australians, created under various state and federal legislation. Along with missions and other institutions, they were used from the 19th c ...

on 20 September 1941, along with neighbouring small islands, with the intention of extending Palm Island Aboriginal Settlement, but it was never used as such. The island is situated in Steamer Passage, Halifax Bay approximately southwest of Palm Island in

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, Australia. It is around 51 hectares or 0.51 square km in size. There is no naturally occurring fresh water on Havannah, Fly or Brisk Islands.

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{{Great Palm Island group Great Palm Island group Uninhabited islands of Australia

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