Bumaga Island
Encyclopedia
Bumaga Island is an island
in both the Wessel Islands
group and the Cunningham Islands
group in the Northern Territory
of Australia
.
Island
An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...
in both the Wessel Islands
Wessel Islands
The Wessel Islands are a group of islands belonging to the Northern Territory of Australia. They extend in a more or less straight line from Buckingham Bay and the Napier Peninsula of Arnhem Land, and Elcho Island, to the northeast. Marchinbar Island is the largest of the group...
group and the Cunningham Islands
Cunningham Islands
The Cunningham Islands is a small group of islands located south of the Wessel Islands in the Northern Territory of Australia. Both Bumaga Island and Warnawi Island are in the Cunningham Islands group and the Wessel Islands group.-External links:*...
group in the Northern Territory
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions...
of Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
.