Fly Island is a tiny uninhabited
island
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in the
Great Palm Island group
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Descriptions or measurements
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* Greatness, being divine, majestic, superior, majestic, or transcendent
People
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. Along with nine of the other islands within the Palm Islands group, it falls under the
local government area
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of the
Aboriginal Shire of Palm Island
The Aboriginal Shire of Palm Island is a special local government area of Queensland, Australia, managed by the Palm Island Aboriginal Shire Council under a Deed of Grant in Trust granted to the community on 27 October 1986. The local council wa ...
.
The island was gazetted as an
Aboriginal reserve
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on 20 September 1941, along with neighbouring small islands, with the intention of extending
Palm Island Aboriginal Settlement, but it was never used as such.
Fly Island is a few hundred metres northwest of
Havannah Island and southeast of
Ingham. The nearest island to the west is
Pandora Reef
Pandora Reef is a low-lying island in addition to being an adjacent fringing reef. It is in Halifax Bay in Queensland, Australia. It is from the Greater Palm group.
The name Pandora Reef dates back to at least 1889.
The surrounding wa ...
.
See also
*
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.
Largest islands
The islands larger than are:
* Tasmania (Tas) ;
* Melville Island, Northern Territory (NT ...
References
{{Great Palm Island group
Great Palm Island group
Uninhabited islands of Australia