List of islands of Australia

Australia has 8,222 islands within its maritime borders. The largest islands are, Tasmania 68,332 km²; Melville Island 5,786 km²; Kangaroo Island, 4,416 km²; Groote Eylandt, 2,285 km²; Bathurst Island, 1,693km²; Fraser Island 1,653km²; Flinders Island, 1,359 km²; King Island 1,091 km²; Mornington Island, 1 002 km². , [ [http://www.ga.gov.au/education/facts/landforms/largisle.htm National Mapping - Fab Facts, Landforms, Australian Islands ] ] This is a list of selected Australian islands grouped by state or territory. Australia is often called the island continent, although this is something of a contradiction in terms.

Australian Capital Territory

*Aspen Island
*Bowen Island (in Jervis Bay Territory)
*Pine Island
*Spinnaker Island
*Springbank Island

New South Wales

*Chatsworth Island in the Clarence River
*Clark Island, an island in Sydney Harbour
*Cockatoo Island, an island in Sydney Harbour; originally used as a prison and later developed as a shipyard
*Dangar Island, a small forested island in the Hawkesbury River
*Darling Island - no longer an island
*Esk Island - north arm of Clarence River
*Fort Denison - also known as "Pinchgut"
*Five Islands Nature Reserve A group of islands off the coast near Wollongong, New South Wales.
*Garden Island - no longer an island
*Glebe Island - no longer an island
*Goat Island, a rocky island in Sydney Harbour
*Green Island, a small island north of Smoky Cape
*Harwood Island in the Clarence River
*Lion Island, located at the entrance to the Hawkesbury River
*Long Island
*Long Island - no longer an island
*Lord Howe Island, a small island in the Pacific Ocean 600 kilometres (373 mi) east of the Australian mainland
**Ball's Pyramid
*Montague Island, 9 kilometres offshore from Narooma on the south coast of New South Wales
*Muttonbird Island an island off Coffs Harbour
*Oxley Island
*Pinchgut - see Fort Denison, a former penal site and defensive facility in Sydney Harbour
*Rodd Island, a small island on the Parramatta River
*Scotland Island, an island in the north of Sydney
*Shark Island, an island in Sydney Harbour
*Snapper Island, an island in Sydney Harbour
*Spectacle Island, an island located in Australia's Hawkesbury River
*Spectacle Island, an island in Sydney Harbour
*Solitary Islands
*Woodford Island, an inland island in the Far-North Coast of New South Wales

Northern Territory

*Bathurst Island
*Bickerton Island
*Crocodile Islands
*Croker Island
*Elcho Island
*Goulburn Islands
*Groote Eylandt - Dutch for "Great Island"
*Howard Island
*Marchinbar Island
*Melville Island, the second biggest island in Australia (excluding the mainland)
*Sir Edward Pellew Group
*Tiwi Islands
*Vanderlin Island
*Wessel Islands
*West Island, Torres Strait

Queensland

*Bishop Island - no longer an island (Port of Brisbane wharves construction in the mouth of the Brisbane River extended over this island)
*Bribie Island
*Brisk Island
*Brook Islands - made up of three islands: North, Tween and Middle.
*Coochiemudlo Island
*Curacoa Island
*Daydream Island
*Dunk Island
*Esk Island
*Eclipse Island
*Fantome Island
*Falcon Island
*Fisherman's Island - no longer an island (Port of Brisbane wharves construction in the mouth of the Brisbane River extended over this island)
*Fitzroy Island
*Frankland Islands
**Russell Island
*Fraser Island, the largest sand island in the world
*Goold Island
*Great Keppel Island
*Green Island
*Hamilton Island
*Heron Island
*Hinchinbrook Island
*Lizard Island
*Magnetic Island
*Moa Island
*Moreton Island
*Mornington Island
*North Stradbroke Island
*Northumberland Islands
*Orpheus Island
*Palm Island
*Pelorus Island
*Pentecost Island, Queensland
*Percy Island
*Prince of Wales Island, Queensland
*Restoration Island
*Saibai Island
*Shaw Island
*Snapper Island
*South Molle Island
*South Stradbroke Island
*Southern Moreton Bay Islands (Queensland)
**Russell Island
**Macleay Island
**Lamb Island
**Karragarra Island
*Sunday Island
*Torres Strait Islands
**Thursday Island
*Wellesley Islands
*Whitsunday Islands

South Australia

*Granite Island
*Hindmarsh Island
*Kangaroo Island, Australia's third largest island (excluding the mainland)
*Neptune Island
*Nuyts Archipelago
*Flinders Island
*Pearson Isles
*St. Francis Island
*St. Peter Island
*Torrens Island

Tasmania

Tasmania is a large island state off the south coast of the island continent of Australia. Islands that are in the State of Tasmania are:

*Albatross Island
*Bruny Island
*Cape Barren Island
*Clarke Island
*De Witt Island
*Eddystone Island
*Flinders Island
*Goat Island
*Hogan Island
*King Island
*Louisa Island
*Maatsuyker Islands
*Macquarie Island
*Maria Island
*Pedra Branca
*Robbins Island
*Rodondo Island
*Sarah Island
*Schouten Island

=Victoria=

*Anser Island
*Barrallier Island
*Bennison Island
*Chinaman Island
*Churchill Island
*Corner Island
*Duck Island
*Elizabeth Island
*French Island
*Gabo Island
*Griffiths Island
*Herring Island
*Joe Island
*Kanowna Island
*Lady Julia Percy Island
*Mud Islands
*Norman Island
*Phillip Island
*Raymond Island
*Rotamah Island
*Shellback Island
*Sunday Island
*Swan Island
*Tullaberga Island

Western Australia

*Archipelago of the Recherche
*Barrow Island
*Bonaparte Archipelago
*Buccaneer Archipelago
**Cockatoo Island
*Cape Leeuwin Islands
*Carnac Island
*Dampier Archipelago
** Rosemary Island
*Dirk Hartog Island
*Garden Island
*Houtman Abrolhos
**Easter Group
***Alexander Island
***Morley Island
***Rat Island
***Suomi Island
***Wooded Island
**Pelsaert Group
***Gun Island
***Middle Island
***Pelsaert Island
**Wallabi Group
***Beacon Island
***East Wallabi Island
***Long Island
***North Island
***Pigeon Island
***West Wallabi Island
*Lacepede Islands
*Molloy Island
*Montebello Islands
*Ronsard Island
*Rottnest Island
*Rowley Shoals
*Scott and Seringapatam Reefs
*Wedge Island

External Territories

*Ashmore and Cartier Islands
*Australian Antarctic Territory
**Achernar Island
**Masson Island
**Hawker Island (68° 39'S, 77° 52'E)cite web|title= National recovery plan for Albatrosses and Giant-petrels: Section 4.1.6 Australian Antarctic Territory |publisher= Australian Government, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts |url= http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/publications/recovery/albatross/habitat.html |accessdate= 2008-07-16]
**Frazier Islands (66° 14'S, 110° 10'E)
**Giganteus Island (67° 37'S, 62° 33'E)
*Christmas Island
*Cocos (Keeling) Islands
**Horsburgh Island
**North Keeling Island
*Coral Sea Islands
**Cato Island
**Elizabeth Reef
**Middleton Reef
**Willis Island
*Heard Island and McDonald Islands
*Norfolk Island
**Nepean Island
**Phillip Island

ee also

*List of islands
*List of islands in the Pacific Ocean
*List of islands in the Indian Ocean
*List of islands of Asia

References