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List of islands of Australia

"Islands of Australia" redirects here. For the 2016 television program, see Martin Clunes: 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.[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

Queensland

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

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

For a more comprehensive list, see List of islands within the Murray River in South Australia.

Tasmania

Macquarie Island
Currie harbour on King Island, 2007
For a more comprehensive list, see List of islands of Tasmania.

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.

Victoria

Phillip Island, 2003

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
For a more comprehensive list, see List of islands of Western Australia.
See also: Islands of Perth, Western Australia

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

Australian territories

Jervis Bay Territory

  • Bowen Island

Australian Capital Territory

External territories

Norfolk Island, 2007

See also

References

  1. ^ Australia, c\=AU\;o\=Australia Government\;ou\=Geoscience (15 May 2014). "Islands". www.ga.gov.au. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  2. ^ "Area of Australia - States and Territories". Geoscience Australia. Australian Government.
  3. ^ "National Mapping - Fab Facts, Landforms, Australian Islands". Geoscience Australia. Australian Government. Archived from the original on 22 August 2008.
  4. ^ "The Inlet that Eluded Bass". Clyde Coast Links. Archived from the original on 10 April 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2009.
  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. Tasmania's Offshore Islands by Region. 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 17 August 2008. Retrieved 16 July 2008.
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