Mount Adolphus Island

Mount Adolphus Island (native name Muri or Mori Island) is an island at the very tip of Cape York Peninsula on the northern side of the Adolphus Channel, across from Albany Island - in the Cape York Peninsula about 40 km East of Bamaga in Far north Queensland.

Geography

Mount Adolphus Island is 4.4 km long, and 2.1 km wide at its widest point. It measures 6.74 km² in area. It is located 10.1 km from the Australian Mainland. It reaches a height of 150 meters in flat-topped Mount Adlophus.

Blackwood Bay indents the west shore of the island.

This island is part of the Torres Strait Islands.

Shipwrecks

Aliquis. Ship. Captain Gill. From Port Jackson to Calcutta, lost near Mount Adolphus Island, Torres Strait, May 1839. No lives lost. Crew picked up by the ship Argyle, also bound Sydney to India

RMS Quetta.^[1] Steel steamship, 3481 tons. Built Dumbarton, Scotland, 1881. British, India Steam Navigation Company. Captain Alfred Sanders. From Brisbane to London, foundered when she struck a needle of uncharted coral in Mount Adolphus Channel, Torres Strait, 28 February 1890. 133 lives lost; 158 survivors. A submerged rock had ripped through six water-tight compartments of the hull, from the bows to the engine room. Stokers were killed instantly as water rushed onto the boilers causing them to explode. Lower-deck portholes burst under the water pressure and the sea flooded in swamping passengers asleep in their bunks. For half a minute the ship hung at a 45-degree angle, then she slid slowly beneath the surface. Within less than five minutes of striking the rock she was gone.

Aerial photos & maps

• Mount Adolphus Island is at coordinates 10°38′13″S 142°39′07″E / 10.637°S 142.652°E / -10.637; 142.652Coordinates: 10°38′13″S 142°39′07″E / 10.637°S 142.652°E / -10.637; 142.652

Notes

1. ^ Hofer, Hubert (2004). The wreck of the SS Quetta H. Hofer, Atherton, Qld http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/14858095