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This is a list of selected Australian islands grouped by State or Territory.
Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by ...
has 8,222 islands within its maritime borders.


Largest islands

The islands larger than are: *
Tasmania ) , nickname = , image_map = Tasmania in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Tasmania in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdi ...
(Tas) ; * Melville Island,
Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Aust ...
(NT), ; *
Kangaroo Island Kangaroo Island, also known as Karta Pintingga (literally 'Island of the Dead' in the language of the Kaurna people), is Australia's third-largest island, after Tasmania and Melville Island. It lies in the state of South Australia, southwest ...
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South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest o ...
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Groote Eylandt Groote Eylandt ( Anindilyakwa: ''Ayangkidarrba'' meaning "island" ) is the largest island in the Gulf of Carpentaria and the fourth largest island in Australia. It was named by the explorer Abel Tasman in 1644 and is Dutch for "Large Island" i ...
(NT), ; * Bathurst Island (NT), ; *
Fraser Island Fraser Island ( Butchulla: ) is a World Heritage-listed island along the south-eastern coast in the Wide Bay–Burnett region, Queensland, Australia. The island is approximately north of the state capital, Brisbane, and is within the Fras ...
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Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , establishe ...
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Flinders Island Flinders Island, the largest island in the Furneaux Group, is a island in the Bass Strait, northeast of the island of Tasmania. Flinders Island was the place where the last remnants of aboriginal Tasmanian population were exiled by the colo ...
(Tas), ; * King Island (Tas), ; and * Mornington Island (Qld), .


New South Wales

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Amherst Island Amherst Island is located in Lake Ontario, west of Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Amherst Island, being wholly in Lake Ontario, is upstream, above the St Lawrence River Thousand Islands. The Island is part of Loyalist Township in Lennox and Addingt ...
, in Lake Mummuga * Bare Island, near the north headland of Botany Bay * Belowla Island, off Kioloa Beach * Bird Island, located near Budgewoi, east of the Central Coast * Boondelbah Island, at the mouth of Port Stephens * Brisbane Water: ** Pelican Island ** Riley's Island ** St Hubert's Island (largely artificial, created by raising an inter-tidal wetland above high water level) * Broughton Island, located north of Port Stephens * Broulee Island, located off the coast at Broulee *
Brush Island The Brush Island is a continental island, contained within the Brush Island Nature Reserve, a protected nature reserve, known as Mit Island in the Dhurga language of the Murramamrang people of the Yuin nation see (http://press-files.anu.edu.au/ ...
, off Bawley Point * Cabbage Tree Island, at the mouth of Port Stephens *Cabbage Tree Island, in the Richmond River * Carter's Island, in Botany Bay near the mouth of George's River * Clarence River estuary: ** Ashby Island ** Chatsworth Island ** Freeburn Island ** Goodwood Island ** Harwood Island ** Micalo Island ** Palmer's Island ** Thorny Island ** Warregah Island ** Yargai Island * Clark Island, in Sydney Harbour * Cockatoo Island, in Sydney Harbour, originally used as a prison and later developed as a shipyard * Comerong Island, in the Shoalhaven River estuary * Coocumbac Island, in the Manning River at Taree * Cook Island, located near Tweed Heads * Crampton Island, off the mouth of Lake Tabourie * Dalhunty Island, in Wilson River at Telegraph Point * Dangar Island, a small forested island in the Hawkesbury River *
Darling Island Darling is a term of endearment of Old English origin. Darling or Darlin' or Darlings may also refer to: People * Darling (surname) * Darling Jimenez (born 1980), American boxer *Darling Légitimus (1907–1999), French actress Places Austral ...
, a former island subsequently bridged by land, in Sydney Harbour *
Elizabeth Island Elizabeth Island may refer to: * Elizabeth Island (Alaska) * Elizabeth Island, Bahamas * Elizabeth Island, Bermuda * Elizabeth Island (Georgian Bay) * Elizabeth Island, Michigan * Elizabeth Island, New Zealand * Elizabeth Island (Victoria) * ...
, in the Clarence River near Grafton * Esk Island, in the north arm of the Clarence River * Fatima Island, a tidal island of the Cook's River *
Fattorini Island Fattorini & Sons was a jewellery business established by a family of Italian immigrants who arrived in the British city of Leeds, in Yorkshire, England in the early 19th century. Antonio Fattorini opened a shop in Harrogate to take advantage of ...
, in the Macleay River near Smithtown * Fort Denison, also known as ''Pinchgut'' * Five Islands Nature Reserve, a group of islands off the coast of Wollongong: ** Bass Island ** Big Island ** Martin Island ** Red Island ** Tom Thumb Island * Garden Island (no longer an island) * Glebe Island (no longer an island) *
Goat Island Goat Island (or Goat Islands) may refer to: Arts * Goat Island (performance group), a Chicago-based company * ''Goat Island'' (play), ''Delitto all'isola delle capre'', by Ugo Betti Places Australia * Goat Island (Port Jackson) in Sydney Harbou ...
, a rocky island in Sydney Harbour * Green Island, a small island north of Smoky Cape * Green Island, off the mouth of Lake Conjola * Hexham Island, in the lower Hunter River * Honeysuckle Island, in Wallaga Lake * Horse Island, in Tuross Lake * Joass Island, located in Little Swan Bay, Port Stephens * Kurrajong Island, in the Shoalhaven estuary *
Lake Illawarra Lake Illawarra ( Aboriginal Tharawal language: various adaptions of ''Elouera'', ''Eloura'', or ''Allowrie''; ''Illa'', ''Wurra'', or ''Warra'' meaning pleasant place near the sea, or, high place near the sea, or, white clay mountain), is an op ...
: ** Berageree Island ** Bevan's Island ** Gooseberry Island ** Hooka Island ** Picnic Island ** Cudgeree Island * Kooragang Island, in the lower Hunter River * Lake Eucumbene: ** Grace Lea Island ** Hallstrom Island ** Heron Island ** Teal Island * Lion Island, in Broken Bay * Little Rawdon Island, in Hastings River downstream of Wauchope *
Long Island Long Island is a densely populated island in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of New York, part of the New York metropolitan area. With over 8 million people, Long Island is the most populous island in the United States and the 18 ...
, in the Hawkesbury River *
Lord Howe Island Lord Howe Island (; formerly Lord Howe's Island) is an irregularly crescent-shaped volcanic remnant in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, part of the Australian state of New South Wales. It lies directly east of mainland Po ...
, a small oceanic island in the Tasman Sea, east of the Australian mainland; it is the most remote island of Australia to not fall under external territory status **
Ball's Pyramid Ball's Pyramid is an erosional remnant of a shield volcano and caldera lying southeast of Lord Howe Island in the Pacific Ocean. It is high, while measuring in length and only across, making it the tallest volcanic stack in the world. B ...
** Admiralty Group *
Manning River Manning River (Biripi: ''Boolumbahtee''), an open and trained mature wave dominated barrier estuary, is located in the Northern Tablelands and Mid North Coast districts of New South Wales, Australia. It is the only double delta river in the ...
estuary: ** Cabbage Tree Island ** Dumaresq Island ** Mitchell's Island ** Oxley Island * Merriman Island, in Wallaga Lake * Milson Island, in the Hawkesbury River * Montague Island, east of Narooma on the south coast * Moon Island, 1 km off Swansea Heads * Muttonbird Island, off
Coffs Harbour Coffs Harbour is a city on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, north of Sydney, and south of Brisbane. It is one of the largest urban centres on the North Coast, with a population of 78,759 as per 2021 census. The Gumbaynggirr ...
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Newry Island Newry (; ) is a City status in Ireland, city in Northern Ireland, divided by the Newry River, Clanrye river in counties County Armagh, Armagh and County Down, Down, from Belfast and from Dublin. It had a population of 26,967 in 2011. Newry ...
, in the Kalang River near Urunga * Numbaa Island, in the Shoalhaven River * Payne's Island, in Wallaga Lake *
Peat Island Peat Island is a small island of approximately eight hectares in the Hawkesbury River, just north of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It forms part of the suburb called Mooney Mooney and is located just upstream from the Sydney – Newcastl ...
, in the Hawkesbury River * Pig Island, in the Shoalhaven River *
Pimlico Island Pimlico () is an area of Central London in the City of Westminster, built as a southern extension to neighbouring Belgravia. It is known for its garden squares and distinctive Regency architecture. Pimlico is demarcated to the north by Victori ...
, in Richmond River near Wardell *''Pinchgut'' - see Fort Denison, a former penal site and defensive facility in Sydney Harbour * Pulbah Island, the largest island in Lake Macquarie * Rawdon Island, in Hastings River downstream of Wauchope *
Reedy Island Reedy Island is a small island in the middle of the channel of the Delaware River near its mouth on the Delaware Bay in the U.S. state of Delaware. It is located approximately east of Port Penn, Delaware and southwest of Salem, New Jersey. The ...
, in Tuross Lake * Regatta Island, in Wallis Lake *
Rodd Island Rodd Island is a island on the Parramatta River in Sydney, Australia. It lies in the centre of Iron Cove, between the suburbs of Drummoyne, Russell Lea, Rodd Point, Haberfield, Lilyfield and Leichhardt. It is located west of the Sydney ...
, a small island in Iron Cove, an arm of Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) * Sanctuary Island, in Narrabeen Lagoon * Scotland Island, in Pittwater * Shark Island, in Sydney Harbour * Snapper Island, in Sydney Harbour * Spectacle Island, in the Hawkesbury River * Spectacle Island, in Sydney Harbour * Solitary Islands ** North Solitary Island ** South Solitary Island ** Southwest Solitary Island ** Mid Solitary Island ** Split Solitary Island * Stott's Island, in Tweed River at Tumbuulgum * Stuart's Island, in Nambucca River at Bellwood * Sultan's Island off coast 4 km north of Eden *
Susan Island Susan Island is an island in the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada. To its west is Finlayson Channel; to its east Mathieson Channel. Roderick Island lies to its north and Dowager Island to its south. James Johnstone, one of George Vancouve ...
, in Clarence River at Grafton * Teribah Island, at The Entrance, Tuggerah Lake * Tollgate Islands (2), in Bateman's Bay * Ukerebagh Island, in Tweed River at South Tweed Heads *
Wallis Island Wallis ( Wallisian: ''Uvea'') is a Polynesian atoll/island in the Pacific Ocean belonging to the French overseas collectivity (''collectivité d'outre-mer'', or ''COM'') of Wallis and Futuna. It lies north of Tonga, northeast of Fiji, east-n ...
, in Wallis Lake * Wasp Island, the only island in Durras Inlet near
Batemans Bay Batemans Bay is a town on the South Coast region of the state of New South Wales, Australia. Batemans Bay is administered by the Eurobodalla Shire council. The town is situated on the shores of an estuary formed where the Clyde River meets th ...
* Wedding Cake Island, a small island off the coast of Coogee * Windang Island, a small island at the entrance to Lake Illawarra *
Woodford Island Woodford Island is an inland island in the Far-North Coast of New South Wales, Australia. It is formed by the Clarence River where it splits into the South Arm and North Arm at the small village of Brushgrove then reforms at the town of Maclea ...
, in the Clarence River immediately upstream of Maclean * Yellow Rock Island, at junction of Bellinger and Kalang Rivers near Urunga


Northern Territory

* Bathurst Island *
Bickerton Island Bickerton Island is 13 km west of Groote Eylandt and 8 km east of the mouth of Blue Mud Bay in eastern Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is about 21 by 21 kilometres in size, with deep bays and indentations, and ...
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Bruney Island Burney Island is an island in the Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The ...
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Crocodile Islands The Crocodile Islands are a group of islands belonging to the Yan-nhaŋu people of the Northern Territory of Australia. They are located off the coast of Arnhem Land in the Arafura Sea. List of islands Larger islands * Milingimbi Island, in t ...
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Croker Island Croker Island is an island in the Arafura Sea off the coast of the Northern Territory, Australia, northeast of Darwin. It was the site of the Croker Island Mission between 1940 and 1968. Indigenous peoples At the earliest time of European co ...
* East Woody Island * Elcho Island * Goulburn Islands *
Groote Eylandt Groote Eylandt ( Anindilyakwa: ''Ayangkidarrba'' meaning "island" ) is the largest island in the Gulf of Carpentaria and the fourth largest island in Australia. It was named by the explorer Abel Tasman in 1644 and is Dutch for "Large Island" i ...
- The name is an archaic spelling of the Dutch words for "Big Island" - Australia's 4th largest island *
Howard Island Howard Island is an island in the Arafura Sea, Northern Territory, Australia. It belongs to East Arnhem Region, and is evenly divided between ''Gumurr Gatjirrk Ward'' in the west and ''Gumurr Marthakal Ward'' in the east. The only settlements ...
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Inglis Island Inglis Island is the largest of a group called the English Company's Islands, in Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central ...
* Marchinbar Island * Martjanba Island * Melville Island, the second largest island in Australia * Quail Island * Sir Edward Pellew Group *
Tiwi Islands The Tiwi Islands ( tiw, Ratuati Irara meaning "two islands") are part of the Northern Territory, Australia, to the north of Darwin adjoining the Timor Sea. They comprise Melville Island, Bathurst Island, and nine smaller uninhabited islands, w ...
* Vanderlin Island * Wessel Islands


Queensland

* Acheron Island * Agnes Island * Albino Rock * Aplin Islet * Arnold Islets *
Avoid Island Avoid Island is one of the Flat Isles, within the island chain called the Northumberland Islands, around off the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia, approximately south of Mackay. Owned and managed by the Queensland Trust for Nature (QT ...
* Baird Island * Barber Island * Barrow Island *
Bayley Island Bayley Island is one of the West Wellesley Islands, on the eastern side of the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, Australia. It is within the Shire of Mornington. Geography The island is located northwest of the mainland, and less than sou ...
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Bedarra Island Bedarra Island (also known as Richards Island) is one of the Family Islands group within the locality of Dunk in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland. Australia. Geography Bedarra Island is approximately seven kilometres off the tropical Nort ...
* Beesley Island *
Bentinck Island Bentinck Island is a small island in the Strait of Juan de Fuca just off the southern tip of Vancouver Island in Metchosin, British Columbia, Canada near Race Rocks. It served as a leper colony beginning in 1924, when the federal government shut ...
* Bird Islands *
Bishop Island Bishop Island is a Baffin Island offshore island located in the Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut. The island lies in Frobisher Bay, approximately southwest of Iqaluit. Hill Island and Faris Island are in the immediate vicinity. The ...
No longer an island -
Port of Brisbane Port of Brisbane is the shipping port and coastal suburb of the City of Brisbane, on the east coast of Queensland, Australia. In the , Port of Brisbane had no residents living in the suburb. The port is the largest in the state of Queensland. ...
wharves construction in the mouth of the Brisbane River extended over it
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Bootie Island Bootie Island is a small island in the Shire of Cook in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is part of the Cockburn Islands Group. Geography Bootie Island is northeast of Cape Grenville in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. It is around ...
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Bountiful Islands The Bountiful Islands are a group of small islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia, belonging to the state of Queensland and within the Shire of Mornington. The islands cover an area of . They form an Important Bird Area b ...
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* Boyne Island *
Brampton Island Brampton Island is an island in the Cumberland Group, off shore from Mackay in the Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia. The island lies within the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, and the majority of the island forms the Brampton Isla ...
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Bribie Island Bribie Island is the smallest and most northerly of three major sand islands forming the coastline sheltering the northern part of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. The others are Moreton Island and North Stradbroke Island. Bribie Island i ...
* Brisk Island * Brook Islands, three islands: North, Tween and Middle. * Bourke Isles * Bushy Island *
Bushy Islet Bushy Islet is a one-mile-long islet in Queensland, Australia about from Woody Island and from Quoin Island in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park of Queensland, Australia. It is approximately west of Cairncross Island. Bushy Islet is part ...
* Cholmondeley Islet * Clack Island * Clerke Island * Coconut Island *
Coochiemudlo Island Coochiemudlo Island is a small island in the southern part of Moreton Bay, near Brisbane, in South East Queensland, Australia. It is also the name of the locality upon the island, which is within the local government area of Redland City. In th ...
* Crab Island * Cordelia Rocks * Coquet Island *
Curacoa Island Curacoa Island (pron. KEWR-ə-sow) is one of the islands in the Palm Islands group off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The nearest island is Great Palm Island, after which the group is named. Curacoa Island is uninhabited. The Aborigina ...
* Denham Island, Cape York Peninsula * Denham Island, Wellesley Islands * Douglas Islet *
Duncan Islands The Duncan Islands are a group of islands in the Torres Strait Islands archipelago, northwest of the Bramble Channel of Torres Strait in Queensland, Australia. The islands are situated north of Thursday Island and approximately southwest of Ba ...
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Dunk Island Dunk Island, known as ''Coonanglebah'' in the Warrgamay and Dyirbal languages, is an island within the locality of Dunk in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It lies off the Australian east coast, opposite the town of Missi ...
* Eagle Island *
Ellis Island Ellis Island is a federally owned island in New York Harbor, situated within the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey, that was the busiest immigrant inspection and processing station in the United States. From 1892 to 1954, nearly 12 mil ...
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Ephraim Island Ephraim Island is luxury residential development located in the suburb of Paradise Point in the north of Gold Coast, Australia. The development is a joint-venture between Lewis Land and Mirvac. The island has an area of 9.6 hectares and was once ...
* Esk Island * Eclipse Island * Fantome Island * Falcon Island *
Fisher Island Fisher is an archaic term for a fisherman, revived as gender-neutral. Fisher, Fishers or The Fisher may also refer to: Places Australia * Division of Fisher, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in Queensland * Ele ...
* Fisherman Island * Fitzroy Island * Fly Island *
Frankland Islands Frankland Group is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 1353 km northwest of Brisbane. The five continental islands of the Frankland Group are High Island, Normanby Island, Mabel Island, Round Island and Russell Island, which lie ...
** Russell Island * K'gari, the largest sand island in the world * Goold Island * Gore Island *
Great Keppel Island Great Keppel Island (''Woppaburra, Wop-Pa, Wapparaburra'') lies from the coast off Yeppoon in the Shire of Livingstone, Queensland, Australia. It is part of the Capricorn Coast of Central Queensland. The island's traditional owners are the Wo ...
* Great Palm Island * Green Island * Haggerston Island * Hales Island * Hannibal Islands * Harvey Island * Heron Island * High Island *
Hinchinbrook Island Hinchinbrook Island (or Pouandai to the Biyaygiri people) is an island in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It lies east of Cardwell and north of Lucinda, separated from the north-eastern coast of Queensland by the narrow H ...
* Horseshoe Island * Houghton Island *
Hudson Island Hudson Island is the southernmost island of the Family Islands group and located approximately 20 km East of Tully Heads. The Aboriginal name for this island is ''Coolah Island''. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority The Gr ...
* Jessie Island *
Kangaroo Island Kangaroo Island, also known as Karta Pintingga (literally 'Island of the Dead' in the language of the Kaurna people), is Australia's third-largest island, after Tasmania and Melville Island. It lies in the state of South Australia, southwest ...
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Kent Island Kent Island is the largest island in the Chesapeake Bay and a historic place in Maryland. To the east, a narrow channel known as the Kent Narrows barely separates the island from the Delmarva Peninsula, and on the other side, the island is sep ...
* King Island * Kumboola Island *
Lady Elliot Island Lady Elliot Island is the southernmost coral cay of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. The island lies north-east of Bundaberg and covers an area of approximately . It is part of the Capricorn and Bunker Group of islands and is owned by the C ...
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Lady Musgrave Island Lady Musgrave Island is a coral cay on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, with a surrounding reef. The island is the second southernmost island in the Great Barrier Reef chain of islands (with the first (southernmost) being Lady Elliot Island). ...
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Leggatt Island Leggatt Island is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and the easternmost island in the Cole Islands group and National Park and is about 100 km south-east of Cape Melville, Queensland. Leggatt Island is a vegetated sand cay locat ...
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Lindquist Island Lindquist Island is an island in Queensland, Australia. It is within the locality of Cowley Beach in Cassowary Coast Region. It forms part of the Cowley Beach Training Area military base. Geography The island is about 90 km north of Du ...
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Lizard Island Lizard Island is an island on the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland (Australia), northwest of Brisbane and part of the Lizard Island Group that also includes Palfrey Island. It is part of the Lizard Island National Park. Lizard Island is withi ...
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Lloyd Island Lloyd Island is an island in the Aboriginal Shire of Lockhart River, Queensland, Australia. Geography Lloyd Island is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in Lloyd Bay between Lockhart River and Cape Direction. Lloyd Island is a ...
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Low Island Geologically, a low island is an island of coral origin. The term applies whether the island was formed as a result of sedimentation upon a coral reef or of the uplifting of such islands. The term is used to distinguish such islands from h ...
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Low Wooded Island Low Wooded Island is the name of an island 30 km south-east of Cape Flattery in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and within the Three Islands National Park. The island is an important seabird nesting site. It is around 45 hect ...
* Mabel Island *
Makepeace Island Makepeace Island is a small heart shaped island resort located in the Noosa River on Australia's Sunshine Coast. The island is currently owned by Virgin Australia (formerly known as Virgin Blue) founding partners, Brett Godfrey and Sir Richard B ...
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Magnetic Island Magnetic Island ( Wulguru: Yunbenun) is an island offshore from the city of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. This mountainous island in Cleveland Bay has effectively become a suburb of Townsville, with 2,335 permanent residents. The islan ...
* Milman Islet *
Moreton Island Moreton Island (Mulgumpin) is an island on the eastern side of Moreton Bay on the coast of South East Queensland, Australia. The Coral Sea lies on the east coast of the island. Moreton Island lies northeast of the Queensland capital, Brisban ...
* Mornington Island *
Morris Island Morris Island is an 840-acre (3.4 km²) uninhabited island in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina, accessible only by boat. The island lies in the outer reaches of the harbor and was thus a strategic location in the American Civil War. The ...
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Mudjimba Island Mudjimba is a coastal suburb in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia, and forms part of the Maroochydore urban centre. In the , Mudjimba had a population of 2,540 people. Geography The suburb is bounded by Mudjimba Beach on the Co ...
* Murdock Island * Nigger Head * Newton Island * Nob Island * Noble Island * Normanby Island * North Direction Island *
North Stradbroke Island North Stradbroke Island ( Jandai: ''Minjerribah''), colloquially ''Straddie'' or ''North Straddie'', is an island that lies within Moreton Bay in the Australian state of Queensland, southeast of the centre of Brisbane. Originally there was onl ...
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Northumberland Islands The Northumberland Islands are a scattered island chain off the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia. Geography and history The Northumberland Islands are to the south-east of the city of Mackay roughly between the latitudes 21°S and 22 ...
** Bedwell Group ** Beverley Group ** Broad Sound Islands ** Duke Islands ** Flat Isles ** Guardfish Cluster ** Percy Isles *
Orpheus Island Orpheus Island National Park is a national park on Orpheus Island, in North Queensland, Australia. The Aboriginal (possibly Nyawaygi) name for this island is Goolboddi Island. It is one of the Palm Islands group, northwest of Brisbane, as is ...
* Paddy Island *
Pains Island Pains Island is one of the West Wellesley Islands The West Wellesley Islands, also referred to as the Forsyth Islands, is an island group and suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Gulf of Carpentaria within the Shire of Mornin ...
* Palfrey Island *
Peel Island Peel Island ( Indigenous, Janday: ''Teerk Roo Ra'', also and more phonetically spelled 'Jercuruba' or 'Jercroobai' ) is a small heritage-listed island located in Moreton Bay, east of Brisbane, in South East Queensland, Australia. The island ...
* Pelorus Island *
Pentecost Island Pentecost Island is one of the 83 islands that make up the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu. It lies due north of capital Port Vila. Pentecost Island is known as in French and in Bislama. The island was known in its native languages by ...
* Percy Island * Perry Island * Pigeon Island * Pincushion Island * Pipon Island * Prince of Wales Island *
Pumpkin Island Pumpkin Island is a privately owned island in Keppel Bay on the southern Great Barrier Reef in Australia.Raine Island Raine Island is a vegetated coral cay in total area situated on the outer edges of the Great Barrier Reef off north-eastern Australia. It lies approximately north-northwest of Cairns in Queensland, about east-north-east of Cape Grenville on t ...
* Restoration Island * Rocky Island * Rocky Point Island * Rodney Island * Round Island * St Helena Island * Shaw Island *
Sherrard Island Sherrard Island is an island in the Aboriginal Shire of Lockhart River in Queensland, Australia. Geography It is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park north-west of Cape Melville, Queensland and north-east of Coen between the first ...
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Sir Charles Hardy Islands Sir Charles Hardy Islands is in the reef of the same name adjacent to Pollard Channel & Blackwood Channel about 40 km east of Cape Grenville off Cape York Peninsula. Shipwrecks Shipwrecks in this area include: ''Charles Eaton'' * ...
* The Sisters * Sisters Islands * Snapper Island * South Direction Island * South Stradbroke Island *
Southern Moreton Bay Islands The Southern Moreton Bay Islands, abbreviated as the ''SMBI'', also known as the ''Bay Islands'', or the ''RKLM'', are the four inhabited southern Moreton Bay islands located in South East Queensland, Australia. The group is part of the Redland ...
** Russell Island **
Macleay Island Macleay Island is an island in Moreton Bay, South East Queensland, Australia. The island constitutes a town and locality within the City of Redland. In the , the locality of Macleay Island had a population of 2,681 people. Geography Macle ...
** Perulpa Island (connected to Macleay Island by causeway) ** Lamb Island ** Karragarra Island *
Saibai Island Saibai Island, often shortened to just Saibai ( mwp, Saybay), is an island of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago, located in the Torres Strait of Queensland, Australia. The island is situated north of the Australian mainland and south o ...
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Torres Strait The Torres Strait (), also known as Zenadh Kes, is a strait between Australia and the Melanesian island of New Guinea. It is wide at its narrowest extent. To the south is Cape York Peninsula, the northernmost extremity of the Australian mai ...
* Stephens Island * Struck Island * Sunday Island *
Sunter Island Sunter Island is an island in the Aboriginal Shire of Lockhart River, Queensland, Australia. Geography It is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in Lloyd Bay between Lockhart River and Cape Direction, Queensland. It is approxima ...
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Sweers Island Sweers Island is an island in the South Wellesley Islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, Australia. Privately owned via a perpetual lease and with the only residents being the owners and workers at the resort, the island is within the ...
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Talbot Islands Talbot Islands are a group of Torres Strait Islands in Queensland, Australia. They lie between the Australian mainland and the island of New Guinea and a few kilometres west of Saibai Island, Torres Strait, only 4 km from the Papua New Gu ...
* Tern Island * Thomson Islet *
Thorpe Island Thorpe Island is one of the middle islands of the Family Islands group within the locality of Dunk in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland. Australia. It is about 15 km east of Tully Heads. It is also known as Timana Island. In 1770 ...
* Three Islands * The Three Sisters **
Sue Islet Sue Islet (or Sue Island), also known as Warraber, is the middle islet of The Three Sisters, Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia. This island is one of the Torres Strait Islands and is within the locality of Warraber Islet in the Torres Str ...
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Torres Strait Islands The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands in the Torres Strait, a waterway separating far northern continental Australia's Cape York Peninsula and the island of New Guinea. They span an area of , but their total la ...
* Trochus Island * Turtle Group *
Watson Island Watson Island is a neighborhood and man-made island in Biscayne Bay, in Miami, Florida. It is located Immediately east of the Central Business District and Arts & Entertainment District neighborhoods of downtown Miami and is connected to the ...
* Wellesley Islands ** North Wellesley Islands ( Mornington, Moondalbee, Lingnoonganee, Pisonia, Lingeleah, Beahgoo, Jinke, Sydney, Tulburrerr, Denham, and Andrew Islands) ** South Wellesley Islands (
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Sweers Island Sweers Island is an island in the South Wellesley Islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, Australia. Privately owned via a perpetual lease and with the only residents being the owners and workers at the resort, the island is within the ...
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Bayley Island Bayley Island is one of the West Wellesley Islands, on the eastern side of the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, Australia. It is within the Shire of Mornington. Geography The island is located northwest of the mainland, and less than sou ...
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Whitsunday Islands The Whitsunday Islands are 74 continental islands of various sizes off the central coast of Queensland, Australia, north of Brisbane. The northernmost of the islands are off the coast by the town of Bowen, while the southernmost islands are ...
** Daydream Island ** Dent Island ** Hamilton Island **
Hayman Island Hayman Island is the most northerly of the Whitsunday Islands, off the coast of Central Queensland in the locality of Whitsundays in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. The island is . It is a private island open to the public, most ...
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Hook Island Hook Island is one of the Whitsunday Islands off the coast of the Australian state of Queensland. The island is almost uninhabited, quite rugged and almost completely contained within a section of the Whitsunday Islands National Park. The is ...
** Keswick Island **
Lindeman Island Lindeman Island is an island in the Lindeman Group of the Whitsunday Islands off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The island was named by Captain Bedwell after his sub-lieutenant, George Sidney Lindeman whilst aboard the Royal Navy vessel ...
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Long Island Long Island is a densely populated island in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of New York, part of the New York metropolitan area. With over 8 million people, Long Island is the most populous island in the United States and the 18 ...
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South Molle Island South Molle Island, part of the Whitsunday Islands, is a resort island in the Whitsunday section of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in Australia. The hilly island has numerous bays and inlets accessible by 16 km of walking and cycling t ...
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Whitsunday Island Whitsunday Island is the largest island in the Whitsunday group of islands located off the coast of Central Queensland, Australia. History Whitsunday Island was inhabited by the sea-faring Ngaro people for around 8,000 years prior to British ...
* Wilson Island * Woody Island


South Australia


Ocean islands

* Althorpe Islands **
Haystack Island Haystack Island is an island located in Investigator Strait off the south coast of Yorke Peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia about south-west of Stenhouse Bay. Since 1972, it has been part of the Althorpe Islands Conservati ...
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Seal Island (Investigator Strait) Seal Island is an island located in Investigator Strait off the south coast of Yorke Peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia about south south-west of Stenhouse Bay. Since 1972, it has been part of the Althorpe Islands Con ...
* Beatrice Islets * Bicker Isles * Bird Islands *
Boston Island Boston Island (Barngarla language, Barngarla: ''Goorilyali'' ) is a privately owned island in Port Lincoln, South Australia, Boston Bay, Spencer Gulf, South Australia. It has been primarily used for grazing sheep and was also once the location of ...
* 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 **
Flinders Island Flinders Island, the largest island in the Furneaux Group, is a island in the Bass Strait, northeast of the island of Tasmania. Flinders Island was the place where the last remnants of aboriginal Tasmanian population were exiled by the colo ...
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Pearson Isles Pearson Isles (also called the Pearson Islands, Pearson Group and Pearson Archipelago) is an island group located in the Australian state of South Australia about to west south-west of Cape Finniss on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula with ...
*** Dorothee Island ***
Pearson Island Pearson Island is an island located in the Australian state of South Australia within the Pearson Isles an island group located in the larger group known as the Investigator Group about southwest by west of Cape Finniss on the west coast o ...
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Veteran Isles Veteran Isles (french: Ile du Veteran; also known as the Veteran Islands) is a pair of islands in the Australian state of South Australia which is part of the Pearson Isles which itself is part of the larger island group known as the Investiga ...
** Topgallant Islands ** Waldegrave Islands ** Ward Islands * Jones Island *
Kangaroo Island Kangaroo Island, also known as Karta Pintingga (literally 'Island of the Dead' in the language of the Kaurna people), is Australia's third-largest island, after Tasmania and Melville Island. It lies in the state of South Australia, southwest ...
, Australia's third-largest island * Liguanea Island * Lipson Island *
Louth Island Louth Island ( Nauo: ''Jorunu'' or ''Yoruna'') is a 135 ha island located in Louth Bay, Spencer Gulf, South Australia. The island is privately owned, and has previously been used for the grazing of sheep and mining of guano. The island has an o ...
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Neptune Islands The Neptune Islands consist of two groups of islands located close to the entrance to Spencer Gulf in South Australia. They are well known as a venue for great white shark tourism. Description The Neptune Islands consists of two groups of isl ...
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Nicolas Baudin Island Nicolas Baudin Island is an island in the Australia, Australian state of South Australia about west of Cape Blanche on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula about south south-west of the town of Streaky Bay, South Australia, Streaky Bay. The isla ...
* Nobby Islet *
Nuyts Archipelago The Nuyts Archipelago is an island group located in South Australia in the Great Australian Bight to the south of the town of Ceduna on the west coast of the Eyre Peninsula. It consisting of mostly granitic islands and reefs that prov ...
** St Francis Island ** St Peter Island ** Smooth Island * Middle Island *
Owen Island Owen Island in the Antarctic is a small (19 ha), circular, ice-free island lying between Round Point and Pottinger Point about 500 m off the north coast of King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. It was charted and na ...
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Paisley Islet Paisley Islet (also known as West Bay Islet) is an islet located in the Great Australian Bight immediately off the west coast of Kangaroo Island in South Australia approximately west south-west of Kingscote. It is currently part of the Flinde ...
* 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 The Sir Joseph Banks Group is an archipelago in the Australian state of South Australia located in Spencer Gulf about off the eastern coast of the Eyre Peninsula. It consists of 21 islands of which eighteen are in the Sir Joseph Banks Group C ...
** Blyth Island ** Boucaut Island ** Dalby Island ** Dangerous Reef ** Duffield Island ** English Island ** Hareby Island ** Kirkby Island ** Langton Island ** Lusby Island **
Marum Island Marum () is a town and a former Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the northeastern Netherlands. The municipality was merged into the municipality of Westerkwartier (municipality), Westerkwartier on 1 January 2019. History Marum ...
** Partney Island ** Reevesby Island ** Roxby Island ** Seal Rock ** Sibsey Island ** Spilsby Island ** Stickney Island ** Winceby Island * Seal Island (Encounter Bay) *
South Island The South Island, also officially named , is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman ...
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Taylor Island Taylor Island, also known as Taylor's Island, is the largest in a group of seven islands located between the Eyre Peninsula mainland and Thistle Island in the mouth of Spencer Gulf, South Australia. It was named by British explorer Matthew Fli ...
* Thistle Island *
Torrens Island Torrens Island is an island in the Australian state of South Australia located in the Adelaide metropolitan area in the Port River Estuary about northwest of the  Adelaide city centre. Since European settlement of Adelaide in 1836, it has ...
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Troubridge Island Troubridge Island is an island located in the south west corner of Gulf St Vincent in South Australia near the eastern edge of the Troubridge Shoals off the east coast of Yorke Peninsula about southeast by east of the town of Edithburgh It is ...
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Tumby Island Tumby Island is a low bedrock island located 500 m east of the southern tip of Tumby Bay (Tumby Point) in Spencer Gulf, South Australia. The island is a conservation park comprising 35 hectares. The island can be accessed on foot at low tide by ...
* Unnamed island, Baird Bay *
Wardang Island Wardang Island, also known as Waralti (also spelled Waraldi or Wauraltee) is a low-lying 20 km2 island in the Spencer Gulf close to the western coast of the Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. It acts as a natural breakwater, protecting the fo ...
* Wedge Island * Weeroona Island *
West Island The West Island () is the unofficial name given to the cities, towns and boroughs at the western end of the Island of Montreal, in Quebec, Canada. It is generally considered to consist of the Lakeshore municipalities of Dorval, Pointe-Cla ...
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Wright Island Wright Island is an ice-covered island long, lying at the north edge of Getz Ice Shelf about midway between Carney Island and Martin Peninsula, on the Bakutis Coast, Marie Byrd Land. Delineated from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation High ...


Murray River islands

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Hindmarsh Island Hindmarsh Island (Ngarrindjeri: Kumerangk) is an inland river island located in the lower Murray River near the town of Goolwa, South Australia, Goolwa, South Australia. The island is a tourist destination, which has increased in popularity si ...
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Mundoo Island Mundoo is the name of several geographic localities: * Mundoo, Queensland, a town in Australia * Mundoo (Laamu Atoll), an island in the Maldives * Mundoo Island, an island in Lake Alexandrina in South Australia ** Mundoo Island, South Australia ...
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Pomanda Island Pomanda Island is an island in the Australian state of South Australia, located in within Lake Alexandrina about southeast of the Adelaide city centre and south of the town of Wellington. It has an area of . It was the proposed site of a ...
* Rabbit Island, Coorong


Tasmania

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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
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s) within the state of Tasmania; with the main islands listed below, each having a land area greater than . A full list of all 334 islands is located at the
list of islands of Tasmania Tasmania is the smallest and southernmost state of Australia. The Tasmanian mainland itself is an island, with an area of - 94.1% of the total land area of the state. The other islands have a combined area of , for a cumulative total of 99.75% o ...
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Bruny Island Bruny Island ( Nuenonne: Lunawanna-alonnah) is a island located off the south-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia. The island is separated from the Tasmanian mainland by the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, and its east coast lies within the Tasman ...
* Furneaux Island Group ** Anderson Island ** Babel Island ** Badger Island **
Big Green Island The Big Green Island, part of the Big Green Group within the Furneaux Group, is a granite island with limestone and dolerite outcrops, located in Bass Strait west of Flinders Island, in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia. The island i ...
** Cape Barren Island ** Clarke Island **
East Kangaroo Island The East Kangaroo Island, part of the Big Green Group within the Furneaux Group, is a unpopulated limestone island with granite outcrops and dolerite dykes, located in the Bass Strait Bass Strait () is a strait separating the isl ...
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Flinders Island Flinders Island, the largest island in the Furneaux Group, is a island in the Bass Strait, northeast of the island of Tasmania. Flinders Island was the place where the last remnants of aboriginal Tasmanian population were exiled by the colo ...
** Goose Island ** Great Dog Island **
Long Island Long Island is a densely populated island in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of New York, part of the New York metropolitan area. With over 8 million people, Long Island is the most populous island in the United States and the 18 ...
** Mount Chappell Island * Hogan Island * Hunter Island Group ** Hunter Island ** Robbins Island ** Three Hummock Island * Kent Island Group ** Deal Island ** Dover Island ** Erith Island * King Island * Maatsuyker Islands Group ** Chicken Island **
De Witt Island De Witt Island, also known as Big Witch, is an island located close to the south-western coast of Tasmania, Australia. The island is the largest of the Maatsuyker Islands Group, and comprises part of the Southwest National Park and the Tasma ...
** Maatsuyker Island *
Macquarie Island Macquarie Island is an island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, about halfway between New Zealand and Antarctica. Regionally part of Oceania and politically a part of Tasmania, Australia, since 1900, it became a Tasmanian State Reserve in 197 ...
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** Ile du Nord * Partridge Island * Petrel Island Group ** Big Sandy Petrel Island ** Big Stony Petrel Island ** Little Stony Petrel Island ** South West Petrel Island **
Kangaroo Island Kangaroo Island, also known as Karta Pintingga (literally 'Island of the Dead' in the language of the Kaurna people), is Australia's third-largest island, after Tasmania and Melville Island. It lies in the state of South Australia, southwest ...
** Howie Island * Picnic Island * Robbins Island ** Walker Island (northwest) *
Rodondo Island Rodondo Island is a granite island, part of the Rodondo Group, lying in northern Bass Strait, within the state boundaries of Tasmania, Australia. The island is located only south of Wilsons Promontory in Victoria, and 2' of latitude () south o ...
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Schouten Island Schouten Island (formerly Schouten's Isle), part of the Schouten Island Group, is an island with an area of approximately lying close to the eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia, located south of the Freycinet Peninsula and is a part of Fre ...
* Sloping Island Group ** Sloping Island **
Smooth Island (Tasmania) Smooth Island, is a privately owned island with an area of lying close to the south-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia. The island is part of the Sloping Island Group situated in Norfolk Bay and surrounded by the Tasman Peninsula, Tasman and ...
*Waterhouse Island Group ** Swan Island ** Waterhouse Island


Victoria

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Anser Island Anser Island lies off the southern tip of Wilsons Promontory in Victoria, Australia. The island is within Wilsons Promontory National Park. The surrounding waters to the mean high-water mark are within Wilsons Promontory Marine National Park. ...
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Barrallier Island Barrallier Island is a very small uninhabited island located northwest of French Island in Victoria, Australia. The island is shown on the chart of Western Port based on the 1801 survey by James Grant in . The island is named after Francis B ...
* Bennison Island * Chinaman Island *
Churchill Island Churchill Island is a island in Western Port, Victoria, Australia. It is connected by a bridge to Phillip Island, which is in turn connected to the mainland by another bridge. It is the site of the first European garden in Victoria. It contain ...
* Corner Island * Duck Island *
Elizabeth Island Elizabeth Island may refer to: * Elizabeth Island (Alaska) * Elizabeth Island, Bahamas * Elizabeth Island, Bermuda * Elizabeth Island (Georgian Bay) * Elizabeth Island, Michigan * Elizabeth Island, New Zealand * Elizabeth Island (Victoria) * ...
* French Island * Gabo Island *
Griffiths Island Griffiths Island, sometimes incorrectly spelled as Griffith Island or Griffitts Island, lies at the mouth of the Moyne River next to, and within the bounds of, the town of Port Fairy, in the Western District, Victoria, Western District of the st ...
* Joe Island * Kanowna Island *
Lady Julia Percy Island Lady Julia Percy Island, known as ''Deen Maar'' or ''Dhinmar'' in the Gunditjmara language, lies off the coast, in the Barwon South West region of Victoria, Australia in Bass Strait. The island is an unincorporated area under the direct adminis ...
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Mud Islands The Mud Islands reserve is located within Port Phillip, about south-west of Melbourne, Australia, lying inside Port Phillip Heads, north of Portsea and east of Queenscliff. The land area of about is made up of three low-lying islands sur ...
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Norman Island Norman Island is an island at the southern tip of the British Virgin Islands archipelago. It is one of a number of islands reputed to be the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's pirate novel '' Treasure Island''. History It is said that ...
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Phillip Island Phillip Island ( Boonwurrung: ''Corriong'', ''Worne'' or ''Millowl'') is an Australian island about south-southeast of Melbourne, Victoria. The island is named after Governor Arthur Phillip, the first Governor of New South Wales, by explore ...
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Raymond Island Raymond Island (Gunai language, Gunai/Kurnai language: Bunjil-baul) is a small island in the Gippsland Lakes in eastern Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, about from Melbourne, Victoria, Melbourne. The island is approximately long b ...
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Rotamah Island Rotamah Island, or Gellung-warl in the Kurnai language, is a river island in The Lakes National Park, in the Gippsland Lakes of Victoria, Australia, about from Paynesville, from which it is accessible by boat. Features * Eucalypt and banks ...
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Sandstone Island Sandstone Island is a small island located approximately one kilometre southeast of the Hastings foreshore in Western Port, Victoria, Australia. Sandstone Island has an area of approximately 19 hectares and is adjacent to Jacks Beach. The isla ...
* Shellback Island * Snake Island * Sunday Island * Swan Island * Tullaberga Island * Mangrove Islet


River islands

* Beveridge Island *
Coode Island Coode Island is a former island at the convergence of the Yarra and Maribyrnong Rivers, 4 km west of central Melbourne, Australia. The island was formed by the excavation of the Coode Canal in 1887, and became connected to the mainlan ...
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Gunbower Island Gunbower is a town in northern Victoria, Australia. The town is located in the Shire of Campaspe, north of the state capital, Melbourne on the banks of Gunbower Creek Gunbower is a town in northern Victoria, Australia. The town is located in ...
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Herring Island Herring Island is an Antarctic rocky island, long, lying east of Cloyd Island in the south part of the Windmill Islands. It was first mapped from air photos taken by USN Operation Highjump and Operation Windmill in 1947 and 1948. Named by the U ...
* Jordan's Island * Pental Island


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 ** Cockatoo Island * Cape Leeuwin Islands * Carnac Island *
Dampier Archipelago The Dampier Archipelago is a group of 42 islands near the town of Dampier in the Pilbara, Western Australia. The archipelago is also made up of reefs, shoals, channels and straits and is the traditional home of five Aboriginal language group ...
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Dirk Hartog Island A dirk is a long bladed thrusting dagger.Chisholm, Hugh (ed.), ''Dagger'', The Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed., Vol. VII, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press (1910), p. 729 Historically, it gained its name from the Highland Dirk (Sco ...
* Garden Island *
Houtman Abrolhos The Houtman Abrolhos (often called the Abrolhos Islands) is a chain of 122 islands and associated coral reefs, in the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia, about west of Geraldton, Western Australia. It is the southernmost true coral ...
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Easter Group The Easter Group is the central of three groups of islands that make up the Houtman Abrolhos island chain. The group measures about 20 kilometres by 12 kilometres, and consists of a number of islands including * Rat Island * W ...
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Pelsaert Group The Pelsaert Group is the southernmost of the three groups of islands that make up the Houtman Abrolhos island chain. it consists of a number of islands, the largest of which are Gun Island, Middle Island, and Pelsaert Island. The g ...
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Wallabi Group The Wallabi Group is the northernmost group of islands in the Houtman Abrolhos off the western coast of Western Australia. it is from the Australian mainland, and about from the Easter Group. The group consists of a numbe ...
* Lacepede Islands *
Lowendal Islands The Lowendal Islands comprise an archipelago, with a total area of about 160 ha of land lying off the coast of Western Australia. It is important for breeding seabirds. Description The archipelago lies 10 km north-east of the much ...
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Mary Anne Group The Mary Anne Group is an archipelago off the north west coast of Western Australia, nominally located at 21º17'S 115º30'E. Together with the Mangrove Islands and Passage Islands, it is part of a long chain of near-shore islands stretching f ...
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Montebello Islands The Montebello Islands, also rendered as the Monte Bello Islands, are an archipelago of around 174 small islands (about 92 of which are named) lying north of Barrow Island and off the Pilbara coast of north-western Australia. The islands ...
* Recherché Archipelago *
Rottnest Island Rottnest Island ( nys, Wadjemup), often colloquially referred to as "Rotto", is a island off the coast of Western Australia, located west of Fremantle. A sandy, low-lying island formed on a base of aeolianite limestone, Rottnest is an A-cla ...
* Rowley Shoals * Scott and Seringapatam Reefs * Shark Bay islands * Wedge Island


Australian territories


Jervis Bay Territory

* Bowen Island


Australian Capital Territory

* Kingston Island * Pine Island * Queen Elizabeth II Island * Spinnaker Island * Springbank Island


External territories

* Ashmore and Cartier Islands *
Australian Antarctic Territory The Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT) is a part of East Antarctica claimed by Australia as an external territory. It is administered by the Australian Antarctic Division, an agency of the federal Department of Climate Change, Energy, the En ...
** Achernar Island **
Masson Island Masson Island or Mission Island is an ice-covered island about long and rising to , lying northwest of Henderson Island within the Shackleton Ice Shelf. Masson Island is located in the western part of Mawson Sea at and has an elevation of . ...
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Hawker Island Hawker Island is an irregularly shaped island about long, lying some 7 km south-west of Davis Station between Mule Island and Mule Peninsula, Vestfold Hills, in the eastern part of Prydz Bay, Antarctica. It was mapped by Norwegian cartogr ...
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Frazier Islands The Frazier Islands are a group of three rocky islands - Nelly, Dewart and Charlton - in the eastern part of Vincennes Bay, East Antarctica, west-north-west of Clark Peninsula, and 16 km offshore from Australia's Casey Station. History ...
** Giganteus Island *
Christmas Island Christmas Island, officially the Territory of Christmas Island, is an Australian external territory comprising the island of the same name. It is located in the Indian Ocean, around south of Java and Sumatra and around north-west of the ...
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Horsburgh Island Horsburgh Island (in Malay, Pulo Luar or Pulu Luar) is one of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Its area is . There is a small lagoon in the interior of the island to the northeast. History The Clunies-Ross Family kept deer on the island for hunti ...
** Home Island ** North Keeling Island **
West Island The West Island () is the unofficial name given to the cities, towns and boroughs at the western end of the Island of Montreal, in Quebec, Canada. It is generally considered to consist of the Lakeshore municipalities of Dorval, Pointe-Cla ...
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Coral Sea Islands The Coral Sea Islands Territory is an external territory of Australia which comprises a group of small and mostly uninhabited tropical islands and reefs in the Coral Sea, northeast of Queensland, Australia. The only inhabited island is Wi ...
**Cato Island **
Elizabeth Reef Elizabeth Reef, located at is a coral reef in the Coral Sea. The reef is separated by a deep oceanic pass, some 47 km wide, from nearby Middleton Reef, both of which are part of the underwater plateau known as the Lord Howe Rise. It ...
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Middleton Reef Middleton Reef is a coral reef in the Coral Sea. It is separated by a deep oceanic pass some 47 km wide from nearby Elizabeth Reef, forming part of the Lord Howe Rise underwater plateau. It is around 230 km from Lord Howe Island and ...
** Willis Island *
Heard Island and McDonald Islands The Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) is an Australian external territory comprising a volcanic group of mostly barren Antarctic islands, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica. The group's overall size ...
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Norfolk Island Norfolk Island (, ; Norfuk: ''Norf'k Ailen'') is an external territory of Australia located in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and New Caledonia, directly east of Australia's Evans Head and about from Lord Howe Island. Together wit ...
** Nepean Island **
Phillip Island Phillip Island ( Boonwurrung: ''Corriong'', ''Worne'' or ''Millowl'') is an Australian island about south-southeast of Melbourne, Victoria. The island is named after Governor Arthur Phillip, the first Governor of New South Wales, by explore ...


See also

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List of islands This is a list of the lists of islands in the world grouped by country A country is a distinct part of the world, such as a state, nation, or other political entity. It may be a sovereign state or make up one part of a larger state. F ...
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List of islands in the Pacific Ocean Collectively called the Pacific Islands, the islands in the Pacific Ocean are further categorized into three major island groups: Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Depending on the context, the term ''Pacific Islands'' may refer to one of se ...
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List of islands in the Indian Ocean The islands of the Indian Ocean are part of either the eastern, western, or southern areas. Some prominently large islands include Madagascar, Sri Lanka, and the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java. Eastern Indian Ocean *Andaman Islands (Indi ...
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List of islands of Asia This is a list of the lists of islands in the world grouped by country, by continent, by body of water A body of water or waterbody (often spelled water body) is any significant accumulation of water on the surface of Earth or another plane ...
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List of Torres Strait Islands The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands in the Torres Strait between Queensland, Australia and Papua New Guinea. This is a list of the named islands and island groups in the Torres Strait. In addition there are u ...


References

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