This is a list of selected Australian islands grouped by State or Territory.
Australia has 8,222 islands within its maritime borders.[1]
Largest islands
The islands larger than 1,000 square kilometres (390 sq mi) are:[2][3]
- Tasmania (Tas) 64,519 square kilometres (24,911 sq mi);
- Melville Island, Northern Territory (NT), 5,786 square kilometres (2,234 sq mi);
- Kangaroo Island, South Australia (SA), 4,416 square kilometres (1,705 sq mi);
- Groote Eylandt (NT), 2,285 square kilometres (882 sq mi);
- Bathurst Island (NT), 1,693 square kilometres (654 sq mi);
- Fraser Island, Queensland (Qld), 1,653 square kilometres (638 sq mi);
- Flinders Island (Tas), 1,359 square kilometres (525 sq mi);
- King Island (Tas), 1,091 square kilometres (421 sq mi); and
- Mornington Island (Qld), 1,002 square kilometres (387 sq mi).
New South Wales
Bird Island, 1996
Tasmania 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 islets) within the state of Tasmania;[6] with the main islands listed below, each having a land area greater than 100 hectares (250 acres). A full list of all 334 islands is located at the list of islands of Tasmania.
- Bruny Island
- Furneaux Island Group
- Hogan Island
- Hunter Island Group
- Kent Island Group
- King Island
- Maatsuyker Islands Group
- Macquarie Island
- Maria Island
- Partridge Island
- Petrel Island Group
- Robbins Island
- Rodondo Island
- Schouten Island
- Sloping Island Group
- Waterhouse Island Group
Victoria
Phillip Island, 2003
- Anser Island
- Barrallier Island
- Bennison Island
- Chinaman Island
- Churchill Island
- Corner Island
- Duck Island
- Elizabeth Island
- French Island
- Gabo Island
- Griffiths Island
- Joe Island
- Kanowna Island
- Lady Julia Percy Island
- Mud Islands
- Norman Island
- Phillip Island
- Raymond Island
- Rotamah Island
- Sandstone Island
- Shellback Island
- Snake Island
- Sunday Island
- Swan Island
- Tullaberga Island
- Mangrove Islet
River islands
Western Australia
Rottnest Island, 2003
Over 1,000 islands have been gazetted – only the island groups and major islands are listed.
- Ashmore Reef
- Barrow Island
- Bonaparte Archipelago
- Buccaneer Archipelago
- Cape Leeuwin Islands
- Carnac Island
- Dampier Archipelago
- Dirk Hartog Island
- Garden Island
- Houtman Abrolhos
- Lacepede Islands
- Lowendal Islands
- Mary Anne Group
- Montebello Islands
- Recherché Archipelago
- Rottnest Island
- Rowley Shoals
- Scott and Seringapatam Reefs
- Shark Bay islands
- Wedge Island
Australian territories
Jervis Bay Territory
Australian Capital Territory
External territories
Norfolk Island, 2007
See also
- List of islands
- List of islands in the Pacific Ocean
- List of islands in the Indian Ocean
- List of islands of Asia
- List of Torres Strait Islands
References
- ^ Australia, c\=AU\;o\=Australia Government\;ou\=Geoscience (15 May 2014). "Islands". www.ga.gov.au. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
- ^ "Area of Australia - States and Territories". Geoscience Australia. Australian Government.
- ^ "National Mapping - Fab Facts, Landforms, Australian Islands". Geoscience Australia. Australian Government. Archived from the original on 22 August 2008.
- ^ "The Inlet that Eluded Bass". Clyde Coast Links. Archived from the original on 10 April 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2009.
- ^ no longer an island - Port of Brisbane wharves construction in the mouth of the Brisbane River extended over it
- ^ Brothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; Lucieer, Vanessa (2001). Tasmania's offshore islands: seabirds and other natural features. Tasmania's Offshore Islands by Region. Hobart, Tasmania: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-7246-4816-0.
- ^ "National recovery plan for Albatrosses and Giant-petrels: Section 4.1.6 Australian Antarctic Territory". Australian Government, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. Archived from the original on 17 August 2008. Retrieved 16 July 2008.