Trochus Island
Trochus Island | ||
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Landsat image of Trochus Island (center, left) and Turtle Head Island (center). |
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Waters | Pacific Ocean ( Coral Sea ) | |
Geographical location | 10 ° 55 '15 " S , 142 ° 37' 51" E | |
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length | 1.9 km | |
width | 900 m | |
surface | 1.6 km² | |
Highest elevation | 18 m | |
Residents | uninhabited | |
Map of the Torres Strait Islands |
Trochus Island is an uninhabited Australian island in the extreme south of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago . It is located just a few hundred meters off the east coast of the Cape York Peninsula in Newcastle Bay at the mouth of the Middle River . Turtle Head Island is 1.3 km to the east .
Trochus Island is densely overgrown and fringed by a reef.
Administratively, the island is one of the Inner Islands , an island region in the Torres Shire administrative district of Queensland .
The island is the northernmost offshoot of the large Jardine River National Park .