Booby Island (Saint Kitts And Nevis)
Booby Island may refer to * Booby Island (Western Australia) * Booby Island (Queensland) * Booby Island Light (on Booby Island, Queensland) * Booby Island (Saint Kitts and Nevis), an island off the coast of Saint Kitts and Nevis See also *Booby Cay, one of the Swan Islands, Honduras The Swan Islands, or Islas Santanilla or Islas del Cisne, initially named Islas de las Pozas by Christopher Columbus in 1502, is a chain of three islands located in the northwestern Caribbean Sea, approximately off the coastline of Honduras, w ...

Booby Island (Western Australia)
Booby Island, once known as White Island, is a uninhabited island in the Bonaparte Archipelago of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It was renamed in 2004 to avoid confusion with another "White Island" in the Kimberley region. It is classified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations. IBA was developed and sites are identified by BirdLife Int ... because it supports more than 1% of the world's population of brown boobies, with a breeding colony of up to 2,000 pairs. References Bonaparte Archipelago Important Bird Areas of Western Australia Uninhabited islands of Australia {{WesternAustralia-geo-stub ...
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Booby Island (Queensland)
Booby Island is located northwest of Muttee Heads at the tip of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, Australia. This island is in the Torres Strait, west of Thursday Island and west of Prince of Wales Island. Booby Island is also known as Ngiangu by the Kaurareg people of the western Torres Strait, its traditional owners, named for the giant Ngiangu who was forced from a neighbouring island It has been called Booby Island by a number of European explorers, including Captain Cook, for the presence of the booby birds. Shipwrecks In the 19th century, such a high number of ships were lost in the area that provisions were stored on the island for shipwrecked sailors. Wrecks include: * ''Delfshaven''. Barque, 656 tons. Newcastle to Java. :Struck a sunken reef near Booby Island on 24 July 1862. As she was undermanned, the boats were launched with difficulty after big seas had driven her over the rocks into calm water. Natives and adverse currents prevented the survivors reachi ...
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Booby Island Light
Booby Island Light is an active heritage-listed lighthouse located on Booby Island in the Shire of Torres, near the tip of Cape York Peninsula, west of Prince of Wales Island, within the Endeavour Strait, Queensland, Australia. It marks the western entrance to the navigation channel through the Torres Strait. It was the last of the major lights to be constructed along the Queensland coast. History The colony of Queensland was formed in 1859. In 1862, the Queensland government appointed the first Portmaster, Commander George Poynter Heath. During the following years, several committees were held, but none of them recommended the erection of a lighthouse on Booby Island. It was Heath who first recommended the construction of such a lighthouse, at the Intercolonial Conference of Marine Departments in 1873, where a first order light was finally recommended by the delegates. However, this recommendation was not followed through, and it was only in August 1885 that Heath referred t ...
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Booby Island (Saint Kitts And Nevis)
Booby Island may refer to * Booby Island (Western Australia) * Booby Island (Queensland) * Booby Island Light (on Booby Island, Queensland) * Booby Island (Saint Kitts and Nevis), an island off the coast of Saint Kitts and Nevis See also *Booby Cay, one of the Swan Islands, Honduras The Swan Islands, or Islas Santanilla or Islas del Cisne, initially named Islas de las Pozas by Christopher Columbus in 1502, is a chain of three islands located in the northwestern Caribbean Sea, approximately off the coastline of Honduras, w ...

Saint Kitts And Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis (), officially the Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis, is an island country and microstate consisting of the two islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis, both located in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands chain of the Lesser Antilles. With 261 square kilometers of territory, and roughly 50,000 inhabitants, it is the smallest sovereign state in the Western Hemisphere, in both area and population, as well as the world's smallest sovereign federation. The country is a Commonwealth realm, with Charles III as King and head of state. It is the only sovereign federation in the Caribbean. The capital city is Basseterre, located on the larger island of Saint Kitts. Basseterre is also the main port for passenger entry (via cruise ships) and cargo. The smaller island of Nevis lies approximately to the southeast of Saint Kitts, across a shallow channel called The Narrows. The British dependency of Anguilla was historically also a part of this union, w ...
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