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.[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
Cockatoo Island, the largest island in Sydney Harbour, 2008
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, located north of Port Stephens
  • , located off the coast at Broulee
  • Cabbage Tree Island, at the mouth of Port Stephens
  • , 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
  • , a small island in the Manning River downstream of Taree
  • , a former island subsequently bridged by land, in Sydney Harbour
  • , in the north arm of the Clarence River
  • Fatima Island, a tidal island of the Cook's 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
  • , in the Clarence River
  • , located in , Port Stephens
  • 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
  • , 1 km off Swansea Heads
  • Muttonbird Island, off Coffs Harbour
  • 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
  • , the only island in Durras Inlet near Batemans Bay[4]
  • Wedding Cake Island, a small island of the coast of Coogee
  • , a small island at the entrance to Lake Illawarra
  • Woodford Island, in the Clarence River on the far north coast

Northern Territory[]

Queensland[]

Fraser Island, 2006
Great Keppel Island, 2007
Whitehaven Beach, Whitsunday Island, 2008

South Australia[]

Main category: Islands of South Australia
Remarkable Rocks on Kangaroo Island, 2007
Greenly 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[]

For a more comprehensive list, see List of islands within the Murray River in South Australia.

Tasmania[]

Macquarie Island
Currie harbour on King Island, 2007
Main category: Islands of Tasmania
For a more comprehensive list, see List of islands of Tasmania.

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.

Victoria[]

Phillip Island, 2003

River islands[]

Western Australia[]

Rottnest Island, 2003
View of the Recherche Archipelago from Dempster Head
Middle Island, Recherche Archipelago 2011
Main category: Islands of Western Australia
For a more comprehensive list, see List of islands of Western Australia.
See also: Islands of Perth, Western Australia

Over 1,000 islands have been gazetted – only the island groups and major islands are listed.

Australian territories[]

Jervis Bay Territory[]

  • Bowen Island

Australian Capital Territory[]

  • Aspen Island
  • Pine Island
  • Springbank Island

External territories[]

Norfolk Island, 2007
  • Ashmore and Cartier Islands
  • Australian Antarctic Territory[7]
  • Christmas Island
  • Cocos (Keeling) Islands
    • Horsburgh Island
    • Home Island
    • North Keeling Island
    • West Island
  • Coral Sea Islands
    • Cato Island
    • Elizabeth Reef
    • Middleton Reef
    • Willis Island
  • Heard Island and McDonald Islands
  • Norfolk Island
    • Nepean Island
    • Phillip Island

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[]

  1. ^ Australia, c\=AU\;o\=Australia Government\;ou\=Geoscience (15 May 2014). "Islands". www.ga.gov.au. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  2. ^ "Area of Australia - States and Territories". Geoscience Australia. Australian Government.
  3. ^ "National Mapping - Fab Facts, Landforms, Australian Islands". Geoscience Australia. Australian Government. Archived from the original on 22 August 2008.
  4. ^ "The Inlet that Eluded Bass". Clyde Coast Links. Archived from the original on 10 April 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2009.
  5. ^ no longer an island - Port of Brisbane wharves construction in the mouth of the Brisbane River extended over it
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ "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.
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