Trochus Island

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Trochus Island
Landsat image of Trochus Island (center, left) and Turtle Head Island (center).
Landsat image of Trochus Island (center, left)
and Turtle Head Island (center).
Waters Pacific Ocean ( Coral Sea )
Geographical location 10 ° 55 '15 "  S , 142 ° 37' 51"  E Coordinates: 10 ° 55 '15 "  S , 142 ° 37' 51"  E
Trochus Island (Queensland)
Trochus Island
length 1.9 km
width 900 m
surface 1.6 km²
Highest elevation 18  m
Residents uninhabited
Map of the Torres Strait Islands
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 .

See also