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This is a list of selected Australian islands grouped by State or Territory.

Australia has 8,222 islands within its maritime borders.[1]

Largest islands

The islands larger than 1,000 square kilometres (390 sq mi) are:[2][3]

  • Tasmania (Tas) 64,519 square kilometres (24,911 sq mi);
  • Melville Island, Northern Territory (NT), 5,786 square kilometres (2,234 sq mi);
  • Kangaroo Island, South Australia (SA), 4,416 square kilometres (1,705 sq mi);
  • Groote Eylandt (NT), 2,285 square kilometres (882 sq mi);
  • Bathurst Island (NT), 1,693 square kilometres (654 sq mi);
  • Fraser Island, Queensland (Qld), 1,653 square kilometres (638 sq mi);
  • Flinders Island (Tas), 1,359 square kilometres (525 sq mi);
  • King Island (Tas), 1,091 square kilometres (421 sq mi); and
  • Mornington Island (Qld), 1,002 square kilometres (387 sq mi).

New South Wales

Bird Island, 1996
Cockatoo Island, the largest island in Sydney Harbour, 2008
Lord Howe Island, 2006
  • Bare Island, near the north headland of Botany Bay
  • Bird Island, located near Budgewoi, 1.4 kilometres (0.87 mi) east of the Central Coast
  • Boondelbah Island, at the mouth of Port Stephens
  • Broughton Island, located north of Port Stephens
  • Broulee Island, located off the coast at Broulee
  • Cabbage Tree Island, at the mouth of Port Stephens
  • Chatsworth Island, in the Clarence River
  • Clark Island, in Sydney Harbour
  • Cockatoo Island, in Sydney Harbour, originally used as a prison and later developed as a shipyard
  • Cook Island, located near Tweed Heads
  • Dangar Island, a small forested island in the Hawkesbury River
  • Dumaresq Island, a small island in the Manning River downstream of Taree
  • Darling Island, a former island subsequently bridged by land, in Sydney Harbour
  • Esk Island, in the north arm of the Clarence River
  • Fatima Island, a tidal island of the Cook's River
  • Fort Denison, also known as Pinchgut
  • Five Islands Nature Reserve, a group of islands off the coast near Wollongong
  • Garden Island (no longer an island)
  • Glebe Island (no longer an island)
  • Goat Island, a rocky island in Sydney Harbour
  • Goodwood Island
  • Green Island, a small island north of Smoky Cape
  • Harwood Island, in the Clarence River
  • Joass Island, located in Little Swan Bay, Port Stephens
  • Lion Island, at the entrance to the Hawkesbury River
  • Long Island, in the Hawkesbury River
  • Lord Howe Island, a small island in the Tasman Sea, 600 kilometres (370 mi) east of the Australian mainland
  • Milson Island, in the Hawkesbury River
  • Montague Island, 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) east of Narooma on the south coast
  • Moon Island, 1 km off Swansea Heads
  • Muttonbird Island, off Coffs Harbour
  • Oxley Island
  • Pinchgut - see Fort Denison, a former penal site and defensive facility in Sydney Harbour
  • Pulbah Island, the largest island in Lake Macquarie
  • Rodd Island, a small island in the Parramatta River
  • Scotland Island, in the north of Sydney
  • Shark Island, in Sydney Harbour
  • Snapper Island, in Sydney Harbour
  • Spectacle Island, in the Hawkesbury River
  • Spectacle Island, in Sydney Harbour
  • Solitary Islands
  • Wasp Island, the only island in Durras Inlet near Batemans Bay[4]
  • Wedding Cake Island, a small island of the coast of Coogee
  • Windang Island, a small island at the entrance to Lake Illawarra
  • Woodford Island, in the Clarence River on the far north coast


Northern Territory

  • Bathurst Island
  • Bickerton Island
  • Crocodile Islands
  • Croker Island
  • East Woody Island
  • Elcho Island
  • Goulburn Islands
  • Groote Eylandt - The name is an archaic spelling of the Dutch words for "Big Island" - Australia's 4th largest island
  • Howard Island
  • Martjanba Island
  • Melville Island, the second largest island in Australia
  • Quail Island
  • Sir Edward Pellew Group
  • Tiwi Islands
  • Vanderlin Island
  • Wessel Islands


Queensland

Fraser Island, 2006
Great Keppel Island, 2007
Whitehaven Beach, Whitsunday Island, 2008


  • Acheron Island
  • Agnes Island
  • Albino Rock
  • Aplin Islet
  • Arnold Islets
  • Baird Island
  • Barber Island
  • Barrow Island
  • Bedarra Island
  • Beesley Island
  • Bird Islands
  • Bishop Island[5]
  • Bootie Island
  • Bountiful Islands
  • Bowden Island
  • Boyne Island
  • Brampton Island
  • Bribie Island
  • Brisk Island
  • Brook Islands, three islands: North, Tween and Middle.
  • Bourke Isles
  • Bushy Island
  • Bushy Islet
  • Cholmondeley Islet
  • Clack Island
  • Clerke Island
  • Coconut Island
  • Coochiemudlo Island
  • Crab Island
  • Cordelia Rocks
  • Coquet Island
  • Curacoa Island
  • Denham Island
  • Douglas Islet
  • Duncan Islands
  • Dunk Island
  • Eagle Island
  • Ellis Island
  • Ephraim Island
  • Esk Island
  • Eclipse Island
  • Fantome Island
  • Falcon Island
  • Fisher Island
  • Fisherman Island (no longer an island - Port of Brisbane wharves construction in the mouth of the Brisbane River extended over it)
  • Fitzroy Island
  • Fly Island
  • Frankland Islands
    • Russell Island
  • Fraser Island, the largest sand island in the world
  • Goold Island
  • Gore Island
  • Great Keppel Island
  • Great Palm Island
  • Green Island
  • Haggerston Island
  • Hales Island
  • Hannibal Islands
  • Harvey Island
  • Heron Island
  • High Island
  • Hinchinbrook Island
  • Horseshoe Island
  • Houghton Island
  • Hudson Island
  • Jessie Island
  • Kangaroo Island
  • Kent Island
  • King Island
  • Kumboola Island
  • Lady Elliot Island
  • Lady Musgrave Island
  • Leggatt Island
  • Lindquist Island
  • Lizard Island
  • Lloyd Island
  • Low Island
  • Low Wooded Island
  • Mabel Island
  • Makepeace Island
  • Magnetic Island
  • Milman Islet
  • Moreton Island
  • Mornington Island
  • Morris Island
  • Mudjimba Island
  • Murdock Island
  • Nigger Head
  • Newton Island
  • Nob Island
  • Noble Island
  • Normanby Island
  • North Direction Island
  • North Stradbroke Island
  • Northumberland Islands
  • Orpheus Island
  • Paddy Island
  • Palfrey Island
  • Peel Island
  • Pelorus Island
  • Pentecost Island
  • Percy Island
  • Perry Island
  • Pigeon Island
  • Pincushion Island
  • Pipon Island
  • Prince of Wales Island
  • Pumpkin Island
  • Raine Island
  • Restoration Island
  • Rocky Island
  • Rocky Point Island
  • Rodney Island
  • Round Island
  • St Helena Island
  • Shaw Island
  • Sherrard Island
  • Sir Charles Hardy Islands
  • The Sisters
  • Sisters Islands
  • Snapper Island
  • South Direction Island
  • South Stradbroke Island
  • Southern Moreton Bay Islands
    • Russell Island
    • Macleay Island
    • Perulpa Island (Connected to Macleay Island by causeway)
    • Lamb Island
    • Karragarra Island
  • Saibai Island, in the Torres Strait
  • Stephens Island
  • Struck Island
  • Sunday Island
  • Sunter Island
  • Sweers Island
  • Talbot Islands
  • Tern Island
  • Thomson Islet
  • Thorpe Island
  • Three Islands
  • The Three Sisters
    • Sue Islet
  • Torres Strait Islands
  • Trochus Island
  • Turtle Group
  • Watson Island
  • Wellesley Islands
  • Wheeler Island
  • Whitsunday Islands
    • Daydream Island
    • Dent Island
    • Hamilton Island
    • Hayman Island
    • Hook Island
    • Keswick Island
    • Lindeman Island
    • Long Island
    • South Molle Island
    • Whitsunday Island
  • Wilson Island
  • Woody Island

South Australia

Remarkable Rocks on Kangaroo Island, 2007
Greenly Island; a distant view taken from the sea (circa 1903) (State Library of South Australia PRG 280/1/1/120)
Chinamans Hat Island as viewed from the nearby coastline
View of Pearson Island from its south end circa 1914 (State Library of South Australia PRG-280-1-12-263)

Ocean islands

  • Althorpe Islands
    • Haystack Island
    • Seal Island (Investigator Strait)
  • Beatrice Islets
  • Bicker Isles
  • Bird Islands
  • Boston Island
  • Busby Islet
  • Casuarina Islets
  • Chinamans Hat Island
  • Curlew Island
  • Douglas Rock
  • Entrance Island
  • Gambier Islands
  • Garden Island
  • Goose Island
  • Granite Island
  • Grantham Island
  • Greenly Island
  • Grindal Island
  • Investigator Group
    • Flinders Island
    • Pearson Isles
      • Dorothee Island
      • Pearson Island
      • Veteran Isles
    • Topgallant Islands
    • Waldegrave Islands
    • Ward Islands
  • Jones Island
  • Kangaroo Island, Australia's third-largest island
  • Liguanea Island
  • Lipson Island
  • Louth Island
  • Neptune Islands
  • Nicolas Baudin Island
  • Nobby Islet
  • Nuyts Archipelago
    • St Francis Island
    • St Peter Island
    • Smooth Island
  • Middle Island
  • Owen Island
  • Paisley Islet
  • Pelorus Islet
  • Pullen Island
  • Rabbit Island, Coffin Bay
  • Rabbit Island, Louth Bay
  • Rabbit Islet, Pelican Lagoon
  • Royston Island
  • St Francis Island
  • St Peter Island
  • Shag Island
  • Sir Joseph Banks Group
    • Blyth Island
    • Boucaut Island
    • Dalby Island
    • Dangerous Reef
    • Duffield Island
    • English Island
    • Hareby Island
    • Kirkby Island
    • Langton Island
    • Lusby Island
    • Marum Island
    • Partney Island
    • Reevesby Island
    • Roxby Island
    • Seal Rock
    • Sibsey Island
    • Spilsby Island
    • Stickney Island
    • Winceby Island
  • Seal Island (Encounter Bay)
  • South Island
  • Taylor Island
  • Thistle Island
  • Torrens Island
  • Troubridge Island
  • Tumby Island
  • Unnamed island, Baird Bay
  • Wardang Island
  • Wedge Island
  • Weeroona Island
  • West Island
  • Wright Island


Murray River islands

  • Hindmarsh Island
  • Pomanda Island
  • Rabbit Island, Coorong

Tasmania

Macquarie Island
Currie harbour on King Island, 2007

Tasmania is a large island state off the south-east coast of mainland Australia. The main island of Tasmania (which includes 94% of the state's land area) does not have a defined name but can be referred to as the "Tasmanian mainland". There are 334 islands (or islets) within the state of Tasmania;[6] with the main islands listed below, each having a land area greater than 100 hectares (250 acres). A full list of all 334 islands is located at the list of islands of Tasmania.


  • Bruny Island
  • Furneaux Island Group
    • Anderson Island
    • Babel Island
    • Badger Island
    • Big Green Island
    • Cape Barren Island
    • Clarke Island
    • East Kangaroo Island
    • Flinders Island
    • Goose Island
    • Great Dog Island
    • Long Island
    • Mount Chappell Island
  • Hogan Island
  • Hunter Island Group
    • Hunter Island
    • Robbins Island
    • Three Hummock Island
  • Kent Island Group
    • Deal Island
    • Dover Island
    • Erith Island
  • King Island
  • Maatsuyker Islands Group
    • Chicken Island
    • De Witt Island
    • Maatsuyker Island
  • Macquarie Island
  • Maria Island
    • Ile du Nord
  • Partridge Island
  • Petrel Island Group
    • Big Sandy Petrel Island
    • Big Stony Petrel Island
    • Little Stony Petrel Island
    • South West Petrel Island
    • Kangaroo Island
    • Howie Island
  • Robbins Island
    • Walker Island (northwest)
  • Rodondo Island
  • Schouten Island
  • Sloping Island Group
    • Sloping Island
    • Smooth Island (Tasmania)
  • Waterhouse Island Group
    • Swan Island
    • Waterhouse Island


Victoria

Phillip Island, 2003


  • Anser Island
  • Barrallier Island
  • Bennison Island
  • Chinaman Island
  • Churchill Island
  • Corner Island
  • Duck Island
  • Elizabeth Island
  • French Island
  • Gabo Island
  • Griffiths Island
  • Joe Island
  • Kanowna Island
  • Lady Julia Percy Island
  • Mud Islands
  • Norman Island
  • Phillip Island
  • Raymond Island
  • Rotamah Island
  • Sandstone Island
  • Shellback Island
  • Snake Island
  • Sunday Island
  • Swan Island
  • Tullaberga Island
  • Mangrove Islet

River islands

  • Beveridge Island
  • Coode Island
  • Gunbower Island
  • Herring Island
  • Jordan's Island
  • Pental Island

Western Australia

Rottnest Island, 2003
View of the Recherche Archipelago from Dempster Head
Middle Island, Recherche Archipelago 2011

Over 1,000 islands have been gazetted – only the island groups and major islands are listed.

  • Ashmore Reef
  • Barrow Island
  • Bonaparte Archipelago
  • Buccaneer Archipelago
    • Cockatoo Island
  • Cape Leeuwin Islands
  • Carnac Island
  • Dampier Archipelago
  • Dirk Hartog Island
  • Garden Island
  • Houtman Abrolhos
    • Easter Group
    • Pelsaert Group
    • Wallabi Group
  • Lacepede Islands
  • Lowendal Islands
  • Mary Anne Group
  • Montebello Islands
  • Recherché Archipelago
  • Rottnest Island
  • Rowley Shoals
  • Scott and Seringapatam Reefs
  • Shark Bay islands
  • Wedge Island


Australian territories

Jervis Bay Territory

  • Bowen Island

Australian Capital Territory

  • Aspen Island
  • Pine Island
  • Spinnaker Island
  • Springbank Island

External territories

Norfolk Island, 2007


  • Ashmore and Cartier Islands
  • Australian Antarctic Territory[7]
    • Achernar Island
    • Masson Island
    • Hawker Island
    • Frazier Islands
    • Giganteus Island
  • Christmas Island
  • Cocos (Keeling) Islands
    • Horsburgh Island
    • Home Island
    • North Keeling Island
    • West Island
  • Coral Sea Islands
    • Cato Island
    • Elizabeth Reef
    • Middleton Reef
    • Willis Island
  • Heard Island and McDonald Islands
  • Norfolk Island
    • Nepean Island
    • Phillip Island


See also

References

  1. Australia, c\=AU\;o\=Australia Government\;ou\=Geoscience (2014-05-15). "Islands" (in EN). https://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/national-location-information/landforms/islands#heading-2. 
  2. "Area of Australia - States and Territories". Geoscience Australia. Australian Government. http://www.ga.gov.au/education/geoscience-basics/dimensions/area-of-australia-states-and-territories.html. 
  3. "National Mapping - Fab Facts, Landforms, Australian Islands". Geoscience Australia. Australian Government. Archived from the original on 22 August 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080822133909/https://www.ga.gov.au/education/facts/landforms/largisle.htm. 
  4. "The Inlet that Eluded Bass". Clyde Coast Links. http://www.southcoast.com.au/batemansbay/bassinlet/index.html. Retrieved 2009-02-01. 
  5. no longer an island - Port of Brisbane wharves construction in the mouth of the Brisbane River extended over it
  6. Brothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; Lucieer, Vanessa (2001). Tasmania's offshore islands: seabirds and other natural features. Hobart, Tasmania: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-7246-4816-0. 
  7. "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. Archived from the original on 2008-08-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20080817111259/http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/publications/recovery/albatross/habitat.html. Retrieved 2008-07-16.