Pipon Island (Queensland)

Pipon Island or (Walmbaywi) is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park at the tip of Cape Melville, Queensland.

Pipon Island contains a Cruise Ship Anchorage.

This island is the locus of the major carpet snake myth of the area. There is a painting of the snake in Cape Melville and a major traditional residential site. The Cape was also the scene of several wrecks and mass drownings of lugger crews in the 1890's and there is a monument on the 300m high mountain on the cape.

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