Bootie Island is a small island in the

Shire of Cook The Shire of Cook (The Shire) is a local government area in Far North Queensland, Australia. The Shire covers most of the eastern and central parts of Cape York Peninsula, the most northerly section of the Australian mainland. It covers an area ...

in Far North

Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...

, Australia. It is part of the

Cockburn Islands The Cockburn Islands are an island group located in Coronation Gulf, south of Victoria Island (Canada), Victoria Island, west of the Kent Peninsula, in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada. Other island groups in the ...

Group.

Geography

Bootie Island is northeast of

Cape Grenville Cape Grenville (), is a small, east-facing promontory along the Queensland, Australia coast of Cape York Peninsula. It lies between Shelburne Bay to the north and Temple Bay to the south. The nearest significant settlement is Weipa, along the w ...

in the

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park protects a large part of Australia's Great Barrier Reef from damaging activities. It is a vast multiple-use Marine Park which supports a wide range of uses, including commercial marine tourism, fishing, ports an ...

. It is around 2 hectares or 0.02 square km in size. The island is north of Manley Islet and Buchen Rock within the Cockburn Reef, adjacent to Pollard Channel and the

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'' * ...

History

The island is believed to be named after John Bootie, a midshipman on

HMS Endeavour HMS ''Endeavour'' was a British Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook commanded to Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia on his First voyage of James Cook, first voyage of discovery from 1768 to 1771. She was launched in 1764 as t ...

, who died at sea 4 February 1771 on the first voyage of exploration by James Cook to the eastern coast of Australia.

References

{{Reflist Islands on the Great Barrier Reef Shipwrecks in the Coral Sea Shipwrecks of Queensland Uninhabited islands of Australia Islands of Far North Queensland