List of islands of Australia
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This is a list of selected Australian islands grouped by State or Territory.
Australia has 8,222 islands within its maritime borders. The area of the continent of Australia is 6,560,000 square kilometres (2,530,000 sq mi).
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Largest islands[edit]
The islands larger than 1,000 square kilometres (390 sq mi) are:[1][2]
- Mainland 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[edit]
Bird Island, 1996
Lord Howe Island, 2006
- Bare Island, near the north headland of Botany Bay
- Bird Island, located near Budgewoi, 1.4 kilometres (0.87 mi) east of the Central Coast
- Boondelbah Island, at the mouth of Port Stephens
- Broughton Island (New South Wales), located north of Port Stephens
- Cabbage Tree Island, at the mouth of Port Stephens
- Chatsworth Island, in the Clarence River
- Clark Island, in Sydney Harbour
- Cockatoo Island, in Sydney Harbour, originally used as a prison and later developed as a shipyard
- Cook Island, located near Tweed Heads
- Dangar Island, a small forested island in the Hawkesbury River
- Dumaresq Island, a small island in the Manning River downstream of Taree
- Darling Island, a former island subsequently bridged by land, in Sydney Harbour
- Esk Island, in the north arm of the Clarence River
- Fort Denison, also known as Pinchgut
- Five Islands Nature Reserve, a group of islands off the coast near Wollongong
- Garden Island (no longer an island)
- Glebe Island (no longer an island)
- Goat Island, a rocky island in Sydney Harbour
- Goodwood Island
- Green Island, a small island north of Smoky Cape
- Harwood Island, in the Clarence River
- Lion Island, at the entrance to the Hawkesbury River
- Long Island, in the Hawkesbury River
- Lord Howe Island, a small island in the Tasman Sea, 600 kilometres (370 mi) east of the Australian mainland
- Milson Island, in the Hawkesbury River
- Montague Island, 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) east of Narooma on the south coast
- Muttonbird Island, off Coffs Harbour
- Oxley Island
- Pinchgut - see Fort Denison, a former penal site and defensive facility in Sydney Harbour
- Pulbah Island, the largest island in Lake Macquarie
- Rodd Island, a small island in the Parramatta River
- Scotland Island, in the north of Sydney
- Shark Island, in Sydney Harbour
- Snapper Island, in Sydney Harbour
- Spectacle Island, in the Hawkesbury River
- Spectacle Island, in Sydney Harbour
- Solitary Islands
- Wasp Island, the only island in Durras Inlet near Batemans Bay[3]
- Windang Island, a small island at the entrance to Lake Illawarra
- Woodford Island, in the Clarence River on the far north coast
Northern Territory[edit]
- Bathurst Island
- Bickerton Island
- Crocodile Islands
- Croker Island
- Elcho Island
- Goulburn Islands
- Groote Eylandt - Dutch for "Big Island" - Australia's 4th largest island
- Howard Island
- Martjanba Island
- Melville Island, the second largest island in Australia
- Quail Island
- Sir Edward Pellew Group
- Tiwi Islands
- Vanderlin Island
- Wessel Islands
Queensland[edit]
Fraser Island, 2006
Great Keppel Island, 2007
- Acheron Island
- Agnes Island
- Albino Rock
- Aplin Islet
- Arnold Islets
- Baird Island
- Barber Island
- Barrow Island
- Bedarra Island
- Beesley Island
- Bird Islands
- Bishop Island (no longer an island - Port of Brisbane wharves construction in the mouth of the Brisbane River extended over it)
- Bootie Island
- Bountiful Islands
- Bowden Island
- Boyne Island
- Brampton Island
- Bribie Island
- Brisk Island
- Brook Islands, three islands: North, Tween and Middle.
- Bourke Isles
- Bushy Island
- Bushy Islet
- Cholmondeley Islet
- Clack Island
- Clerke Island
- Coconut Island
- Coochiemudlo Island
- Crab Island
- Cordelia Rocks
- Coquet Island
- Curacoa Island
- Denham Island
- Douglas Islet
- Duncan Islands
- Dunk Island
- Eagle Island
- Ellis Island
- Ephraim Island
- Esk Island
- Eclipse Island
- Fantome Island
- Falcon Island
- Fisher Island
- Fisherman's Island (no longer an island - Port of Brisbane wharves construction in the mouth of the Brisbane River extended over it)
- Fitzroy Island
- Fly Island
- Frankland Islands
- Fraser Island, the largest sand island in the world
- Goold Island
- Gore Island
- Great Keppel Island
- Great Palm Island
- Green Island
- Haggerston Island
- Hales Island
- Hannibal Islands
- Harvey Island
- Heron Island
- High Island
- Hinchinbrook Island
- Houghton Island
- Hudson Island
- Jessie Island
- Kangaroo Island
- Kent Island
- King Island
- Kumboola Island
- Lady Elliot Island
- Lady Musgrave Island
- Leggatt Island
- Lindquist Island
- Lizard Island
- Lloyd Island
- Low Island
- Low Wooded Island
- Mabel Island
- Makepeace Island
- Magnetic Island
- Milman Islet
- Moreton Island
- Mornington Island
- Morris Island
- Mudjimba Island
- Murdock Island
- Nigger Head
- Newton Island
- Nob Island
- Noble Island
- Normanby Island
- North Direction Island
- North Stradbroke Island
- Northumberland Islands
- Orpheus Island
- Paddy Island
- Palfrey Island
- Peel Island
- Pelorus Island
- Pentecost Island
- Percy Island
- Perry Island
- Pigeon Island
- Pincushion Island
- Pipon Island
- Prince of Wales Island
- Pumpkin Island
- Raine Island
- Restoration Island
- Rocky Island
- Rocky Point Island
- Rodney Island
- Round Island
- St Helena Island
- Shaw Island
- Sherrard Island
- Sir Charles Hardy Islands
- The Sisters
- Sisters Islands
- Snapper Island
- South Direction Island
- South Stradbroke Island
- Southern Moreton Bay Islands
- Russell Island
- Macleay Island
- Perulpa Island (Connected to Macleay Island by causeway)
- Lamb Island
- Karragarra Island
- Saibai Island, in the Torres Strait
- Stephens Island
- Struck Island
- Sunday Island
- Sunter Island
- Sweers Island
- Talbot Islands
- Tern Island
- Thomson Islet
- Thorpe Island
- Three Islands
- The Three Sisters
- Torres Strait Islands
- Trochus Island
- Turtle Group
- Watson Island
- Wellesley Islands
- Wheeler Island
- Whitsunday Islands
- Wilson Island
- Woody Island
South Australia[edit]
Further information: Category:Islands of South Australia
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Ocean islands[edit]
- Althorpe Islands
- Beatrice Islets
- Bicker Isles
- Bird Islands
- Boston Island
- Busby Islet
- Casuarina Islets
- Chinamans Hat Island
- Curlew Island
- Douglas Rock
- Entrance Island
- Gambier Islands
- Garden Island
- Goose Island
- Granite Island
- Grantham Island
- Greenly Island
- Grindal Island
- Investigator Group
- Jones Island
- Kangaroo Island, Australia's third-largest island
- Liguanea Island
- Lipson Island
- Louth Island
- Neptune Islands
- Nicolas Baudin Island
- Nobby Islet
- Nuyts Archipelago
- Middle Island
- Owen Island
- Paisley Islet
- Pelorus Islet
- Pullen Island
- Rabbit Island, Coffin Bay
- Rabbit Island, Louth Bay
- Rabbit Islet, Pelican Lagoon
- Royston Island
- St Francis Island
- St Peter Island
- Shag Island
- Sir Joseph Banks Group
- Seal Island (Encounter Bay)
- South Island
- Taylor Island
- Thistle Island
- Torrens Island
- Troubridge Island
- Tumby Island
- Unnamed island, Baird Bay
- Wardang Island
- Wedge Island
- Weeroona Island
- West Island
- Wright Island
Murray River islands[edit]
- List of islands within the Murray River in South Australia
- Hindmarsh Island
- Pomanda Island
- Rabbit Island, Coorong
Tasmania[edit]
Tasmania is a large island state off the south coast. The main island (which includes 94% of the state's land area) does not have a defined name but is often referred to[by whom?] as the "Tasmanian mainland".[citation needed]
- Albatross Island
- Boomer Island
- Bruny Island
- Breaksea Islands
- Cape Barren Island
- Clarke Island
- Eddystone Island
- Flinders Island
- Goat Island
- Hogan Island
- Hunter Island Group
- Kathleen Island
- Kent Group, Bass Strait
- King Island
- Louisa Island
- Maatsuyker Islands
- Macquarie Island
- Maria Island
- Mewstone
- Pedra Branca
- Penguin Island
- Robbins Island
- Rodondo Island
- Sarah Island
- Schouten Island
- Sloping Island Group
- Swainson Island Group
- The Lanterns
- Waterhouse Island
- Wedge Island
Victoria[edit]
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[edit]
Western Australia[edit]
Rottnest Island, 2003
Main article: List of islands in Western Australia
Further information: Category:Islands of Western Australia
Over 1,000 islands have been gazetted – only the island groups and major islands are listed.
- Ashmore Reef
- Barrow Island
- Bonaparte Archipelago
- Buccaneer Archipelago
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- 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[edit]
Jervis Bay Territory[edit]
Australian Capital Territory[edit]
External Territories[edit]
Norfolk Island, 2007
- Ashmore and Cartier Islands
- Australian Antarctic Territory
- Achernar Island
- Masson Island
- Hawker Island (68° 39'S, 77° 52'E)[4]
- Frazier Islands (66° 14'S, 110° 10'E)[4]
- Giganteus Island (67° 37'S, 62° 33'E)[4]
- Christmas Island
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Coral Sea Islands
- Cato Island
- Elizabeth Reef
- Middleton Reef
- Willis Island
- Heard Island and McDonald Islands
- Norfolk Island
See also[edit]
- 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[edit]
- ^ "Area of Australia - States and Territories". Geoscience Australia. Australian Government.
- ^ "National Mapping - Fab Facts, Landforms, Australian Islands". Geoscience Australia. Australian Government.
- ^ "The Inlet that Eluded Bass". Clyde Coast Links. Retrieved 2009-02-01.
- ^ a b c "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. Retrieved 2008-07-16.
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