List of Australian islands
The list of Australian islands is a selection of the 8,222 islands that Australia has within its national maritime borders. It is arranged according to the Australian states.
The largest islands in Australia are Tasmania 68,332 km²; Melville Island 5,786 km²; Kangaroo Island 4,416 km²; Groote Eylandt 2,285 km²; Bathurst Island 1,693 km²; Fraser Island 1,653 km²; Flinders Island 1,359 km²; King Island 1,091 km² and Mornington Island 1,002 km².
Australia is often referred to as an island continent or island, although this is misleading because it is a continent.
Australian Capital Territory
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New South Wales
- Ball's pyramid
- Bare Island in the north of Botany Bay
- Chatsworth Island in the Clarence River
- Clark Island in Sydney Harbor
- Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbor
- Dangar Island , a small wooded island in the Hawkesbury River
- Darling Island , not an island today
- Esk Island to the north of the Clarence River
- Fort Denison , also Pinchgut called
- Five Islands Nature Reserve , a group of islands on the coast near Wollongong
- Garden Island , no more island
- Same island , no more island
- Goat Island , a rocky island in Port Jackson
- Green Island , a small island on Smoky Cape
- Harwood Island in the Clarence River
- Lion Island , in the Hawkesbury River
- Long Island , in the Hawkesbury River
- Lord Howe Island , a narrow island in the Pacific 600 km east of mainland Australia
- Montague Island , 9 km from Narooma on the south coast of New South Wales
- Muttonbird Island an island in Coffs Harbor
- Oxley Island
- Pulbah Island , the largest island in Lake Macquarie
- Rodd Island , a small island in the Parramatta River
- Sanctuary Island , a small island in Narrabeen Lake
- Scotland Island , an island in the north of Sydney
- Shark Island , an island in Sydney Harbor
- Snapper Island , an island in Sydney Harbor
- Spectacle Island , an island in the Hawkesbury River
- Spectacle Island , an island in Sydney Harbor
- Solitary Islands
- Wasp Island , an island in Durras Inlet in Batemans Bay
- Woodford Island , an island in the Clarence River in the far north of New South Wales
Northern Territory
- Bathurst Island
- Bickerton Island
- Bremer Island
- Connexion Island
- Crocodile Islands
- Croker Island
- Elcho Island
- Goulburn Islands
- Groote Eylandt
- Howard Island
- Marchinbar Island
- Melville Island
- Quail Island
- Sir Edward Pellew Group
- Tiwi Islands
- Vanderlin Island
- Wessel Islands
- West Island, Torres Strait
Queensland
Fraser Island , 2006
Great Keppel Island , 2007
The 129 islands of Torres Strait are in a separate list of Torres Strait Islands .
- Armit Island
- Bribie Island
- Brisk Island
- Brook Islands is made up of three islands: North, Tween, and Middle.
- Cumberland Islands Group
- Coochiemudlo Island
- Curacoa Island
- Darnley Island
- Dunk Island
- Eclipse Island
- Esk Island
- Fantome Island
- Falcon Island
- Fisherman's Iceland , no longer an island, but in the docks of Port of Brisbane integrated
- Fitzroy Island
- Frankland Islands
- Fraser Island , the largest sand island on earth
- Goold Island
- Great Keppel Island
- Great Palm Island
- Green Island in Green Island National Park
- Heron Island
- Lady Elliot Island
- Lady Musgrave Island
- long Island
- Lizard Island
- Mabuiag
- Magnetic Island
- Mipe
- Moa Island
- Moimi
- Moreton Island
- Mornington Island
- North Stradbroke Island
- Northumberland Islands
- Orpheus Island
- Pack Iceland
- Passage island
- Peel Island
- Pelorus Island
- Pentecost Island, Queensland
- Percy Island
- Poll Island
- Portlock Island
- Prince of Wales Island
- Restoration Island
- Shaw Island
- Snapper Island
- South Molle Island
- South Stradbroke Island
- Southern Moreton Bay Islands
- Sunday Island
- Tahab
- Wellesley Islands
- Widul
South Australia
- Althorpe Islands
- Boston Island
- Gambier Islands
- Granite Island
- Hindmarsh Island
- Kangaroo Island , Australia's third largest island
- Neptune Island
- Nuyts Archipelago
- Flinders Island
- Owen Island
- Pearson Isles
- Sir Joseph Banks Islands
- St Francis Island
- St Peter Island
- Taylor Island
- Thistle Island
- Torrens Island
- Wardang Island
Tasmania
Tasmania is the largest island in Australia, around which 240 islands are grouped on its coasts.
- Albatross Island
- Bruny Island
- Eddystone Island
- Furneaux group
- Goat Island
- Hogan Island
- Hunter Island
- Kent group
- King Island
- Louisa Island
- Maatsuyker Islands
- Macquarie Island
- Maria Island
- Pedra Branca
- Robbins Island
- Rodondo Island
- Sarah Island
- Schouten Island
- Three Hummock Island
- Waterhouse Island Group:
Victoria
- Anser Island
- Barrallier Island
- Bennison Island
- Beveridge Island
- Chinaman Island
- Churchill Island
- Corner Island
- Duck Island
- Elizabeth Island
- French Island in the French Island National Park
- Gabo Island
- Griffiths Island
- Herring Island
- Joe Island
- Kanowna Island
- Lady Julia Percy Island
- Mud Islands
- Norman Island
- Pental Island
- Phillip Island
- Raymond Island
- Rotamah Island
- Shellback Island
- Snake Island
- Sunday Island
- Swan Island
- Tullaberga Island
Western Australia
Islands
- Barrow Island
- Bernier Island
- Bonaparte Archipelago
- Buccaneer Archipelago
- Carnac Island
- Eclipse Island
- Lacepede Islands
- Molloy Island
- Montebello Islands
- Penguin Island
- Research archipelago
- Ronsard Island
- Rottnest Island
- Rowley Shoals
- Scott and Seringapatam Reefs
- Varanus Island
- Wedge Island
Archipelagos
Australian outer areas
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Ashmore and Cartier Islands
- West Islet
- Middle Islet
- East Islet
- Cartier Island
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Australian Antarctic Territory
- Achernar Island
- Masson Island
- Hawker Island (68 ° 39'S, 77 ° 52'E)
- Frazier Islands (66 ° 14'S, 110 ° 10'E)
- Giganteus Island (67 ° 37'S, 62 ° 33'E)
- Christmas Island
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Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- South Keeling Atoll
- Horsburgh Island (Pulau Luar)
- Direction Island (Pulau Tikus)
- Workhouse Island (Pulau Pasir)
- Prison Island (Pulau Beras)
- Woeplace Islets (Pulau Gangsa)
- Home Iceland (Pulau Selma)
- Scaevola Islet (Pulau Ampang Kechil)
- Canui Island (Pulau Ampang)
- Ampang Minor (Pulau Wa-idas)
- Goldwater Island (Pulau Blekok)
- Thorn Island (Pulau Kembang)
- Gooseberry Island (Pulau Cheplok)
- Misery Island (Pulau Pandan)
- Goat Island (Pulau Siput)
- Middle Mission Isle (Pulau Jambatan)
- South Goat Island (Pulau Labu)
- South Island (Pulau Atas)
- North Goat Island (Pulau Kelapa Satu)
- East Cay (Pulau Blan)
- Burial Island (Pulau Blan Madar)
- West Cay (Pulau Maria)
- Keelingham Horn Island (Pulau Kambling)
- West Iceland (Pulau Panjang)
- Turtle Island (Pulau Wak Bangka)
- North Keeling Island (Atoll)
- South Keeling Atoll
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Coral Sea Islands
- Cato Island
- Elizabeth Reef
- Middleton Reef
- Willis Island
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Heard Island and McDonald Islands
- Heard Island
-
McDonald Islands
- McDonald Island
- Flat Island
- Meyer Rock
- Norfolk Island
Web links
Commons : Australian Islands - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ National Mapping - Fab Facts, Landforms, Australian Islands ( Memento of the original from August 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The Inlet did eluded Bass . Clyde Coast Links. Archived from the original on April 10, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 1, 2009.
- ↑ a b c 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 . Retrieved July 16, 2008.
