List of islands of Australia
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);K'gari , 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); andMornington Island (Qld), 1,002 square kilometres (387 sq mi).Apart from the state of Tasmania (with a population of 570,000), the largest islands by population are those connected to major urban areas on the mainland by bridge, including Bribie Island near Brisbane with a population of 18,000, and Phillip Island near Melbourne with a population of 14,000.
New South Wales
Bird Island , 1996Cockatoo Island , the largest island in Sydney Harbour , 2008Lord Howe Island , 2006
Amherst Island , in Lake MummugaAsh Island , in the lower Hunter RiverBare Island , near the north headland of Botany BayBelowla Island , off Kioloa BeachBird Island , located near Budgewoi, 1.4 kilometres (0.87 mi) east of the Central CoastBoondelbah Island , at the mouth of Port StephensBrisbane Water :
Broughton Island , located north of Port Stephens Broulee Island , located off the coast at Broulee Brush Island , off Bawley PointCabbage Tree Island , at the mouth of Port StephensCabbage Tree Island , in the Richmond RiverCarter's Island , in Botany Bay near the mouth of George's RiverClarence River estuary:
Clark Island , in Sydney HarbourCockatoo Island , in Sydney Harbour, originally used as a prison and later developed as a shipyardComerong Island , in the Shoalhaven River estuaryCoocumbac Island , in the Manning River at TareeCook Island , located near Tweed Heads Crampton Island , off the mouth of Lake TabourieDalhunty Island , in Wilson River at Telegraph PointDangar Island , a small forested island in the Hawkesbury RiverDarling Island , a former island subsequently bridged by land, part of Pyrmont , in Sydney HarbourElizabeth Island , in the Clarence River near GraftonEsk Island , in the north arm of the Clarence RiverFatima Island , a tidal island of the Cook's RiverFattorini Island , in the Macleay River near SmithtownFort Denison , also known as Pinchgut Five Islands Nature Reserve , a group of islands off the coast of Wollongong:
Garden Island (no longer an island)Glebe Island (no longer an island)Goat Island , a rocky island in Sydney HarbourGreen Island , a small island north of Smoky CapeGreen Island , off the mouth of Lake ConjolaHexham Island , in the lower Hunter RiverHoneysuckle Island , in Wallaga LakeHorse Island , in Tuross LakeJoass Island , located in Little Swan Bay , Port Stephens Kurrajong Island , in the Shoalhaven estuaryLake Illawarra :
Kooragang Island , in the lower Hunter RiverLake Eucumbene :
Lion Island , in Broken BayLittle Rawdon Island , in Hastings River downstream of WauchopeLong Island , in the Hawkesbury RiverLord Howe Island , a small oceanic island in the Tasman Sea, 600 kilometres (370 mi) east of the Australian mainland; it is the most remote island of Australia to not fall under external territory status
Manning River estuary:
Merriman Island , in Wallaga LakeMilson Island , in the Hawkesbury RiverMontague Island , 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) east of Narooma on the south coastMoon Island , 1 km off Swansea HeadsMuttonbird Island , off Coffs Harbour Newry Island , in the Kalang River near UrungaNumbaa Island , in the Shoalhaven RiverPayne's Island , in Wallaga LakePeat Island , in the Hawkesbury RiverPig Island , in the Shoalhaven RiverPimlico Island , in Richmond River near WardellPinchgut - see Fort Denison , a former penal site and defensive facility in Sydney HarbourPulbah Island , the largest island in Lake MacquarieRawdon Island , in Hastings River downstream of WauchopeReedy Island , in Tuross LakeRegatta Island , in Wallis LakeRodd Island , a small island in Iron Cove, an arm of Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour)Sanctuary Island , in Narrabeen LagoonScotland Island , in PittwaterShark Island , in Sydney HarbourSnapper Island , in Sydney HarbourSpectacle Island , in the Hawkesbury RiverSpectacle Island , in Sydney HarbourSolitary Islands
Stott's Island , in Tweed River at TumbuulgumStuart's Island , in Nambucca River at BellwoodSultan's Island off coast 4 km north of EdenSusan Island , in Clarence River at GraftonTeribah Island , at The Entrance, Tuggerah LakeTollgate Islands (2), in Bateman's BayUkerebagh Island , in Tweed River at South Tweed HeadsWallis Island , in Wallis LakeWasp Island , the only island in Durras Inlet near Batemans Bay [ 4] Wedding Cake Island , a small island off the coast of CoogeeWindang Island , a small island at the entrance to Lake IllawarraWoodford Island , in the Clarence River immediately upstream of MacleanYellow Rock Island , at junction of Bellinger and Kalang Rivers near Urunga
Northern Territory
Queensland
K'gari , 2006Great Keppel Island , 2007Whitehaven Beach , Whitsunday Island , 2008
Acheron Island Agnes Island Albino Rock Aplin Islet Arnold Islets Avoid Island Baird Island Barber Island Barrow Island Bayley Island Bedarra Island Beesley Island Bentinck Island Bird Islands Bishop Island [ 5] 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 , Cape York PeninsulaDenham Island, Wellesley Islands
Douglas Islet
Duncan Islands Dunk Island Eagle Island Ellis Island Ephraim Island Esk Island Eclipse Island Fantome Island Falcon Island Fisher Island Fisherman Island [ 5] Fitzroy Island Fly Island Frankland Islands
K'gari , the largest sand island in the worldGoold 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 Horseshoe 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
Bedwell Group
Beverley Group
Broad Sound Islands
Duke Islands
Flat Isles
Guardfish Cluster
Percy Isles Orpheus Island Paddy Island Pains 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
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
North Wellesley Islands (Mornington , Moondalbee, Lingnoonganee, Pisonia, Lingeleah, Beahgoo, Jinke, Sydney, Tulburrerr, Denham, and Andrew Islands)South Wellesley Islands (Allen , Horseshoe , Albinia, Bentinck , Fowler, and Sweers Islands )West Wellesley Islands (Forsyth, Ivis, Pains , and Bayley Islands )Wheeler Island Whitsunday Islands
Wilson Island
South Australia
Remarkable Rocks on Kangaroo Island , 2007Greenly Island; a distant view taken from the sea (circa 1903) (State Library of South Australia PRG 280/1/1/120) Chinamans Hat Island as viewed from the nearby coastline View of Pearson Island from its south end circa 1914 (State Library of South Australia PRG-280-1-12-263)
Ocean islands
Murray River islands
Tasmania
Macquarie Island Currie harbour on King Island , 2007Tasmania 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] list of islands of Tasmania .
Victoria
Phillip Island , 2003
River islands
Western Australia
Rottnest Island , 2003View of the Recherche Archipelago from Dempster Head Middle Island, Recherche Archipelago 2011 Over 1,000 islands have been gazetted – only the island groups and major islands are listed.
Australian territories
Jervis Bay Territory
Australian Capital Territory
External territories
Norfolk Island , 2007
See also
References
^ Geoscience Australia (15 May 2014). "Islands" . www.ga.gov.au . Retrieved 9 January 2020 .^ "Area of Australia - States and Territories" . Geoscience Australia ^ "National Mapping - Fab Facts, Landforms, Australian Islands" . Geoscience Australia 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 .^ a b 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 . 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 .
Sovereign states Associated states Dependencies
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