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Australia has 8,222 islands within its maritime borders. The largest islands are, Tasmania
Tasmania

Tasmania is an Australian island and States and territories of Australia of the same name. It is located south of the eastern side of the continent, being separated from it by Bass Strait....
  68,332 kmē; Melville Island
Melville Island, Northern Territory

Melville Island lies in the eastern Timor Sea, off the coast of the Northern Territory of Australia. It is west of the Cobourg Peninsula in Arnhem Land and north of Darwin, Northern Territory....
 5,786 kmē; Kangaroo Island
Kangaroo Island

Kangaroo Island is Australia's third largest island - after Tasmania and Melville Island, Northern Territory. It is 112 kilometres southwest of Adelaide at the entrance of Gulf Saint Vincent....
, 4,416 kmē; Groote Eylandt
Groote Eylandt

Groote Eylandt is the largest island in the Gulf of Carpentaria in northeastern Australia. It is the homeland of, and is owned by, the Anindilyakwa people ....
, 2,285 kmē; Bathurst Island
Bathurst Island, Northern Territory

Bathurst Island is one of the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory off the northern coast of Australia along with Melville Island, Northern Territory....
, 1,693kmē; Fraser Island 1,653kmē; Flinders Island
Flinders Island, Tasmania

Flinders Island is an island in the Bass Strait, located 20 km from Cape Portland, Tasmania being the north-eastern tip of Tasmania, Australia. It is the largest island in the Furneaux Group....
, 1,359 kmē; King Island
King Island, Tasmania

King Island is one of the islands that make up the state of Tasmania, Australia. It is by far the largest of a group known as New Year Islands, comprising King Island, New Year Island and Christmas Island to the northwest and smaller Councillor Island to the east....
 1,091 kmē; Mornington Island
Mornington Island

Mornington Island is one of 22 islands part of the Wellesley Islands. The island is located in the Gulf of Carpentaria at and is in the Australian Australian States and Territories of Queensland....
, 1 002 kmē. , This is a list of selected Australian islands grouped by state or territory
States and territories of Australia

The Australia is made up of six states and two major mainland territories. There are also lesser territories that are under the administration of the federal government....
. Australia is often called the island continent, although this is something of a contradiction in terms.






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Tasmania

Tasmania is an Australian island and States and territories of Australia of the same name. It is located south of the eastern side of the continent, being separated from it by Bass Strait....
 is a large island state off the south coast of the island continent of Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
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Australia has 8,222 islands within its maritime borders. The largest islands are, Tasmania
Tasmania

Tasmania is an Australian island and States and territories of Australia of the same name. It is located south of the eastern side of the continent, being separated from it by Bass Strait....
  68,332 kmē; Melville Island
Melville Island, Northern Territory

Melville Island lies in the eastern Timor Sea, off the coast of the Northern Territory of Australia. It is west of the Cobourg Peninsula in Arnhem Land and north of Darwin, Northern Territory....
 5,786 kmē; Kangaroo Island
Kangaroo Island

Kangaroo Island is Australia's third largest island - after Tasmania and Melville Island, Northern Territory. It is 112 kilometres southwest of Adelaide at the entrance of Gulf Saint Vincent....
, 4,416 kmē; Groote Eylandt
Groote Eylandt

Groote Eylandt is the largest island in the Gulf of Carpentaria in northeastern Australia. It is the homeland of, and is owned by, the Anindilyakwa people ....
, 2,285 kmē; Bathurst Island
Bathurst Island, Northern Territory

Bathurst Island is one of the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory off the northern coast of Australia along with Melville Island, Northern Territory....
, 1,693kmē; Fraser Island 1,653kmē; Flinders Island
Flinders Island, Tasmania

Flinders Island is an island in the Bass Strait, located 20 km from Cape Portland, Tasmania being the north-eastern tip of Tasmania, Australia. It is the largest island in the Furneaux Group....
, 1,359 kmē; King Island
King Island, Tasmania

King Island is one of the islands that make up the state of Tasmania, Australia. It is by far the largest of a group known as New Year Islands, comprising King Island, New Year Island and Christmas Island to the northwest and smaller Councillor Island to the east....
 1,091 kmē; Mornington Island
Mornington Island

Mornington Island is one of 22 islands part of the Wellesley Islands. The island is located in the Gulf of Carpentaria at and is in the Australian Australian States and Territories of Queensland....
, 1 002 kmē. , This is a list of selected Australian islands grouped by state or territory
States and territories of Australia

The Australia is made up of six states and two major mainland territories. There are also lesser territories that are under the administration of the federal government....
. Australia is often called the island continent, although this is something of a contradiction in terms.

Australian Capital Territory
Australian Capital Territory

The Australian Capital Territory is the Capital districts and territories of the Australia and its smallest States and territories of Australia....

  • Aspen Island
    Aspen Island

    Aspen Island is an island within Lake Burley Griffin, in the centre of Canberra, Australia Australian Federation capital city. The island is linked to the mainland by a footbridge and is the site of the Australian National Carillon....
  • Bowen Island (in Jervis Bay Territory
    Jervis Bay Territory

    The Jervis Bay Territory is a territory of the Australia. It was bought by the Commonwealth Government in 1915 from the state of New South Wales so that the Federal capital at Canberra would have access to the sea....
    )
  • Pine Island
    Pine Island (Canberra)

    Pine Island is an island on the Murrumbidgee River where the river flows through the Canberra suburb of Tuggeranong, Australia.Pine Island is not a permanent island, but exists when the area floods....
  • Spinnaker Island
    Spinnaker Island (Lake Burley Griffin)

    Spinnaker Island is an island within Lake Burley Griffin, in the centre of Canberra, Australia Australian Federation capital city....
  • Springbank Island
    Springbank Island

    Springbank Island is an island within Lake Burley Griffin, in the centre of Canberra, Australia. It was named after the rural property that now composes part of the island....
  • Mako Island


New South Wales
New South Wales

New South Wales is Australia's oldest and most populous States and territories of Australia, located in the south-east of the country, north of Victoria and south of Queensland....

  • Chatsworth Island in the Clarence River
    Clarence River (New South Wales)

    The Clarence River is situated in northeastern New South Wales, Australia. The river originates on the watershed that marks the Queensland border....
  • Clark Island
    Clark Island (New South Wales)

    Clark Island is an island in Port Jackson, Australia. It lies offshore of the Sydney suburb of Darling Point, New South Wales, in the eastern section of the harbour between the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the harbour entrance....
    , an island in Sydney Harbour
  • Cockatoo Island
    Cockatoo Island, New South Wales

    Cockatoo Island is the largest island in Port Jackson in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Located at the junction of the Parramatta and Lane Cove rivers, Cockatoo Island is a former imperial prison, industrial school, reformatory and gaol....
    , an island in Sydney Harbour; originally used as a prison and later developed as a shipyard
  • Dangar Island
    Dangar Island

    Dangar Island is a small forested island in the Hawkesbury River, just north of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It has a permanent population of about 250, which swells dramatically during holiday seasons....
    , a small forested island in the Hawkesbury River
  • Darling Island - no longer an island
  • Esk Island
    Esk Island

    Esk Island is one of the islands in the Palm Island, Queensland group. The nearest island is Great Palm Island, after which the group is named....
     - north arm of Clarence River
  • Fort Denison
    Fort Denison, New South Wales

    Fort Denison is a former penal site and defensive facility occupying a small island located north of the Royal Botanical Gardens in Port Jackson, New South Wales, Australia....
     - also known as Pinchgut
  • Five Islands Nature Reserve
    Five Islands Nature Reserve

    Five Islands Nature Reserve is a 26 hectare reserve comprising five small islands close to Port Kembla, New South Wales, Australia. The islands - Flinders Islet, Bass Islet, Martin Islet, Big Island and Rocky Islet - lie between 0.5 and 3.5 km off the coast....
     A group of islands off the coast near Wollongong, New South Wales.
  • Garden Island
    Garden Island, New South Wales

    Garden Island is an inner-city locality of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located to the north-east of the Sydney central business district, north of the suburb of Potts Point, New South Wales....
     - no longer an island
  • Glebe Island - no longer an island
  • Goat Island, a rocky island in Sydney Harbour
  • Green Island
    Smoky Cape

    Smoky Cape is a headland in Australia on the New South Wales Mid-North Coast. It lies just south of the town of South West Rocks, New South Wales, and within the Hat Head National Park....
    , a small island north of Smoky Cape
    Smoky Cape

    Smoky Cape is a headland in Australia on the New South Wales Mid-North Coast. It lies just south of the town of South West Rocks, New South Wales, and within the Hat Head National Park....
  • Harwood Island in the Clarence River
    Clarence River (New South Wales)

    The Clarence River is situated in northeastern New South Wales, Australia. The river originates on the watershed that marks the Queensland border....
  • Lion Island
    Lion Island, New South Wales

    Lion Island is located at the entrance to the Hawkesbury River inside Broken Bay and is considered part of the City of Gosford. It is a descriptive name because it resembles a Sphinx, a mythical figure of a crouching lion....
    , located at the entrance to the Hawkesbury River
  • Long Island, in the Hawkesbury River
  • Lord Howe Island
    Lord Howe Island

    Lord Howe Island is a small island in the Pacific Ocean east of the Australian mainland. Along with Ball's Pyramid, it is administered by the Lord Howe Island Board, one of 175 local authorities in the state of New South Wales, and is part of the Mid-North Coast Statistical Division....
    , a small island in the Pacific Ocean 600 kilometres (373 mi) east of the Australian mainland
    • Ball's Pyramid
      Ball's Pyramid

      Ball's Pyramid is an volcanic plug of a shield volcano and caldera that formed about 7 million years ago. Ball's Pyramid is 20 km southeast of Lord Howe Island in the Pacific Ocean....
  • Montague Island
    Montague Island

    Montague Island is 9 kilometres offshore from Narooma, New South Wales on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia....
    , 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
    Snapper Island, New South Wales

    Snapper Island is a 1.65 hectare island in Sydney Harbour, Australia. It lies in the main channel of the western section of the harbour, upstream of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, adjacent to the Sydney suburb of Drummoyne, New South Wales....
    , an island in Sydney Harbour
  • Spectacle Island
    Spectacle Island, Hawkesbury River

    Spectacle Island is a island located in Australia's Hawkesbury River near its junction with Mooney Mooney Creek, to the north of Sydney, New South Wales....
    , an island located in Australia's Hawkesbury River
  • Spectacle Island, an island in Sydney Harbour
  • Solitary Islands
  • Wasp Island, the only island in Durras Inlet near Batemans Bay
  • Woodford Island
    Woodford Island

    Woodford Island is an inland island in the Far-North Coast of New South Wales, Australia. It is formed by the Clarence River where it splits into the South Arm and North Arm at the small village of Brushgrove, New South Wales then reforms at the town of Maclean, New South Wales....
    , an inland island in the Far-North Coast of New South Wales


Northern Territory
Northern Territory

The Northern Territory is a federal states and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions....

  • Bathurst Island
    Bathurst Island, Northern Territory

    Bathurst Island is one of the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory off the northern coast of Australia along with Melville Island, Northern Territory....
  • Bickerton Island
    Bickerton Island

    Bickerton Island is situated 13 km west off Groote Eylandt and 8 km east of mainland Australia, in the Northern Territory. It is about 21 by 21 kilometers in size, with deep bays and indentations, and has an area of 215 km?....
  • Crocodile Islands
    Crocodile Islands

    The Crocodile Islands are a group of islands belonging to the Northern Territory of Australia. They are located off the coast of Arnhem Land. One of the main islands in the group is Milingimbi Island, with other large islands including Mooroongga Island, Yabooma Island, Gananggaringur Island, and Crocodile Island....
  • Croker Island
    Croker Island

    Croker Island is an island in the Arafura Sea off the coast of the Northern Territory, Australia, 200 km northeast of Darwin, Northern Territory....
  • Elcho Island
    Elcho Island

    Elcho Island is an island off the coast of Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. It is located at the southern end of the Wessel Islands group located in the East Arnhem Region....
  • Goulburn Islands
    Goulburn Islands

    The Goulburn Islands are a group of small islands and islets in the Arafura Sea off the coast of Arnhem Land in Northern Territory of Australia....
  • Groote Eylandt
    Groote Eylandt

    Groote Eylandt is the largest island in the Gulf of Carpentaria in northeastern Australia. It is the homeland of, and is owned by, the Anindilyakwa people ....
     - Dutch for "Great Island"
  • Howard Island
    Howard Island

    Howard Island is an island in the Arafura Sea, Northern Territory, Australia. Its area is 280 km?.External links...
  • Marchinbar Island
  • Melville Island
    Melville Island, Northern Territory

    Melville Island lies in the eastern Timor Sea, off the coast of the Northern Territory of Australia. It is west of the Cobourg Peninsula in Arnhem Land and north of Darwin, Northern Territory....
    , the second biggest island in Australia (excluding the mainland)
  • Sir Edward Pellew Group
  • Tiwi Islands
    Tiwi Islands

    The Tiwi Islands are located in Australia's Northern Territory 80 km north of Darwin, Northern Territory at the junction of the Arafura Sea and Timor Sea....
  • Vanderlin Island
    Vanderlin Island

    Vanderlin Island is an island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Territory, Australia. It is the largest island in the Sir Edward Pellew Group. Its area is 264 km?....
  • Wessel Islands
    Wessel Islands

    The Wessel Islands are a group of islands belonging to the Northern Territory of Australia. They lie in a more or less straight line to the northeast of Arnhem Land....
  • West Island, Torres Strait


Queensland
Queensland

Queensland is a States and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south....

  • Bishop Island
    Bishop Island

    Bishop Island is a Baffin Island offshore island located in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut. The island lies in Frobisher Bay, approximately southwest of Iqaluit....
     - no longer an island (Port of Brisbane
    Port of Brisbane

    Port of Brisbane is the shipping port of Brisbane, on the east coast of Australia. It is located in the lower reaches of the Brisbane River on reclaimed land that was once called Fisherman's Island at the mouth of the river....
     wharves construction in the mouth of the Brisbane River extended over this island)
  • Bribie Island
  • Brisk Island
    Brisk Island

    Brisk Island is one of the islands in the Palm Island, Queensland group. The nearest island is Great Palm Island, after which the group is named....
  • Brook Islands
    Brook Islands National Park

    The Brook Islands National Park is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 1246 km northwest of Brisbane, with an area of 0.9 km?. It was established in 1994 and comprises three islands - North, Tween and Middle - which lie off the coast 7 km north-east of Cape Richards on Hinchinbrook Island and 30 km east of the nearest mainland town of...
     - made up of three islands: North, Tween and Middle.
  • Coochiemudlo Island
  • Curacoa Island
    Curacoa Island

    Curacoa Island is one of the islands in the Palm Island, Queensland group. The nearest island is Great Palm Island, after which the group is named....
  • Daydream Island
  • Dunk Island
  • Esk Island
    Esk Island

    Esk Island is one of the islands in the Palm Island, Queensland group. The nearest island is Great Palm Island, after which the group is named....
  • Eclipse Island
    Eclipse Island, Queensland

    Eclipse Island is one of the islands in the Palm Island, Queensland group off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The nearest island is Great Palm Island, after which the group is named....
  • Fantome Island
    Fantome Island

    Fantome Island is one of the islands in the Palm Island, Queensland group. It is neighboured by Palm Island and is 65km north-east of Townsville, Queensland on the east coast of Australia....
  • Falcon Island
    Falcon Island

    Falcon Island is one of the islands in the Palm Island, Queensland group, off the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia. The nearest island is Great Palm Island, after which the group is named....
  • 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
    Frankland Group National Park

    Frankland Group is a national park in Queensland , 1353 km northwest of Brisbane....
    • Russell Island
  • Fraser Island, the largest sand island in the world
  • Goold Island
    Goold Island National Park

    Goold Island is a national park in Queensland , 1250 km northwest of Brisbane. The island is close to the northern tip of Hinchinbrook Island off the coast from Cardwell, Queensland in Rockingham Bay and is part of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area....
  • Great Keppel Island
    Great Keppel Island

    Great Keppel Island lies 15 kilometres from the coast off Yeppoon, Queensland, Central Queensland, Australia . The island is the largest of the eighteen islands in the Keppel Group, and covers an area of more than 14.5 square kilometres....
  • Green Island
    Green Island National Park

    Green Island National Park is a protected area declared over a small cay known to the local Gungganyji Aboriginal peoples as Green Island, Queensland....
  • Hamilton Island
  • Heron Island
  • Hinchinbrook Island
    Hinchinbrook Island

    Hinchinbrook Island is an island in tropical north Queensland, between the mainland and the Great Barrier Reef, and between the region's major cities Townsville, Queensland and Cairns ....
  • Lizard Island
    Lizard Island National Park

    Lizard Island is a national park on the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland , 1624 km northwest of Brisbane and part of the Lizard Island Group that also includes Palfrey Island, Queensland....
  • Magnetic Island
    Magnetic Island

    Magnetic Island, just offshore from the city of Townsville, Queensland, Australia, in Cleveland Bay is a 52 km? mountainous island which has effectively become a suburb of Townsville having 2,107 permanent residents....
  • Moa Island
  • Moreton Island
    Moreton Island

    Moreton Island is a large sand island on the eastern side of Moreton Bay, on the coast of south-east Queensland, Australia. Moreton Island lies 58 kilometres northeast of the Queensland capital, Brisbane....
  • Mornington Island
    Mornington Island

    Mornington Island is one of 22 islands part of the Wellesley Islands. The island is located in the Gulf of Carpentaria at and is in the Australian Australian States and Territories of Queensland....
  • North Stradbroke Island
    North Stradbroke Island

    North Stradbroke Island is an Australian island in the state of Queensland, 30 km southeast of the capital Brisbane. Before 1896 the island was part of the Stradbroke Island....
  • Northumberland Islands
    Northumberland Islands

    Australia's Northumberland Islands are a scattered island chain off the Queensland coast, located south-east of the city of Mackay, Queensland roughly between the latitudes 21?S and 22?S....
  • Orpheus Island
  • Palm Island
  • Pelorus Island
    Pelorus Island

    Pelorus Island is one of the islands in the Palm Island, Queensland group. It is located just north of Orpheus Island. Pelorus is surrounded by spectacular coral reef that can be accessed by snorkeling right off the beach....
  • Pentecost Island, Queensland
  • Percy Island
  • Prince of Wales Island, Queensland
  • Restoration Island
  • Saibai Island
  • Shaw Island
  • Snapper Island
    Snapper Island, Queensland

    Snapper Island is an island at the mouth of the Daintree River in Queensland, Australia, some 20 km north of Port Douglas, Queensland. It is administered by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service as the Snapper Island National Park and Marine Park....
  • South Molle Island
    South Molle Island

    South Molle Island is a resort island in the Whitsunday section of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in Australia. It was owned by the Bauer family since around 1920 and primarily used for sheep and cattle grazing until a resort was built in the 1950's....
  • South Stradbroke Island
    South Stradbroke Island

    South Stradbroke Island is an Australian island in the state of Queensland, south of Brisbane and forms the northern end of Gold Coast, Queensland....
  • Southern Moreton Bay Islands (Queensland)
    • Russell Island
    • Macleay Island
      Macleay Island

      Macleay Island is an island located in Moreton Bay, South East Queensland. It is in the Redland City Council Local Government Area and has the postcode 4184....
    • Lamb Island
    • Karragarra Island
  • Sunday Island
  • Torres Strait Islands
    Torres Strait Islands

    The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands which lie in Torres Strait, the waterway separating far northern continental Australia's Cape York Peninsula and the island of New Guinea....
    • Thursday Island
  • Wellesley Islands
    Wellesley Islands

    The Wellesley Islands are a group of islands off the coast of north Queensland, Australia, in the Gulf of Carpentaria. They were named by Matthew Flinders in honour of Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley....
  • Whitsunday Islands
    Whitsunday Islands

    The Whitsunday Islands are a collective of continental islands of various sizes off the coast of Queensland, Australia, situated between Townsville, Queensland and Mackay, Queensland and some north of Brisbane....


South Australia
South Australia

South Australia is a States and territories of Australia of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories....

  • Granite Island
    Granite Island (Australia)

    Granite Island is a small island next to Victor Harbor, South Australia, not far from South Australia's Capital city, Adelaide.It is unpopulated, however there are buildings on the island....
  • Hindmarsh Island
    Hindmarsh Island

    Hindmarsh Island is an island in the lower Murray River near the town of Goolwa, South Australia. Located on the Fleurieu Peninsula, it is a popular tourist destination, which has increased in popularity since the Hindmarsh Island bridge was opened in 2001....
  • Kangaroo Island
    Kangaroo Island

    Kangaroo Island is Australia's third largest island - after Tasmania and Melville Island, Northern Territory. It is 112 kilometres southwest of Adelaide at the entrance of Gulf Saint Vincent....
    , Australia's third largest island (excluding the mainland)
  • Neptune Island
    Neptune Island

    The South Neptune Islands sit on the Southern aspect of the Australasian Continental shelf, at a distance of 70 kilometers South by South~East of Port Lincoln, in South Australia....
  • Nuyts Archipelago
  • Flinders Island
  • Pearson Isles
  • St. Francis Island
    St. Francis Island

    St Francis Island is an island on the south coast of South Australia near Ceduna. It is part of the Isles of Saint Francis conservation park. It was one of the first parts of South Australia to be discovered and named by Europeans, along with St....
  • St. Peter Island
    St. Peter Island

    St. Peter Island is an island on the south coast of South Australia near Ceduna to the south of Denial Bay. It is the second largest island in South Australia and about 13km long....
  • Torrens Island


Tasmania
Tasmania

Tasmania is an Australian island and States and territories of Australia of the same name. It is located south of the eastern side of the continent, being separated from it by Bass Strait....

Tasmania
Tasmania

Tasmania is an Australian island and States and territories of Australia of the same name. It is located south of the eastern side of the continent, being separated from it by Bass Strait....
 is a large island state off the south coast of the island continent of Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
. Islands that are in the State of Tasmania are: 240 islands listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Islands_of_Tasmania
  • Albatross Island
    Albatross Island (Tasmania)

    Albatross Island is an 18 hectare island nature reserve in Bass Strait in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania?s Hunter Island Group and lies between north-west Tasmania and King Island ....
  • Bruny Island
  • Cape Barren Island
  • Clarke Island
    Clarke Island, Tasmania

    Clarke Island is an island in the Furneaux Group between Victoria and Tasmania, Australia. Situated just to the south of Cape Barren Island, the island is administered as part of Tasmania, but is mostly unpopulated....
  • De Witt Island
    De Witt Island

    De Witt Island, also known as Big Witch, is a 517 hectare island in south-eastern Australia. It is the largest of the Maatsuyker Islands, lying close to the southern end of the south-western coast of Tasmania....
  • Eddystone Island
  • Flinders Island
  • Goat Island
  • Hogan Island
    Hogan Island

    Hogan Island is a granite island, with an area of 232 hectare and a high point of 116 m , in south-eastern Australia. It is the largest of Tasmania?s Hogan Group, lying in northern Bass Strait between the Furneaux Group and Wilsons Promontory in Victoria, Australia....
  • King Island
  • Louisa Island
  • Maatsuyker Islands
    Maatsuyker Islands

    The Maatsuyker Islands Group is a group of islands and islet located 5.5 kilometres off the South Coast Tasmania of Tasmania. Maatsuyker Island is the southernmost island of the group and of the Australian continental shelf....
  • Macquarie Island
    Macquarie Island

    Macquarie Island lies in the southwest corner of the Pacific Ocean, about half-way between Australia and Antarctica. 54?37'53"S, 158?52'15"E. Politically, it has formed part of the Australian state of Tasmania since 1900 and became a Protected areas of Tasmania in 1978....
  • Maria Island
    Maria Island

    Maria Island is a mountainous island off the east coast of Tasmania. The entire island is a National Park. Maria Island National Park has a total area of 115.50 km? which includes a marine area of 18.78 km?, off the island's north-west coast....
  • Pedra Branca
  • Robbins Island
  • Rodondo Island
    Rodondo Island

    Rodondo Island is a visually striking granite island, ringed by steep cliffs up to 200 m high, with an area of 106 hectare and a high point of 350 metre, in south-eastern Australia....
  • Sarah Island
    Sarah Island

    Sarah Island may refer to the following:*Sarah Island , an island in the U.S. state of Massachusetts*Sarah Island , the remnant site of the Macquarie Harbour Penal Station in Van Diemen's Land in Australia...
  • Schouten Island
    Schouten Island

    Schouten Island is a 34 square kilometre island in eastern Tasmania, Australia. It is one kilometre south of the Freycinet Peninsula, at and is a part of the Freycinet National Park....


Victoria
Victoria (Australia)

File:Map Victoria Aboriginal tribes .jpgVictoria is a States and territories of Australia located in the southeastern corner of Australia. It is the smallest mainland state in area but the most Population density and urbanised....

  • Anser Island
    Anser Island (Victoria)

    Anser Island is located off the southern tip of Wilson's Promontory in Victoria , Australia.External links...
  • Barrallier Island
    Barrallier Island (Victoria)

    Barrallier Island is a very small uninhabited island located 1km northwest of French Island...
  • Bennison Island
    Bennison Island (Victoria)

    Bennison Island is an uninhabited granite island near the northern coast of Wilsons Promontory National Park.Access is by boat at high tide....
  • Chinaman Island
    Chinaman Island

    Chinaman Island is an uninhabited island located in Western Port Bay approximately 4km north of French Island . It considered to be of State botanical and zoological significance....
  • Churchill Island
    Churchill Island

    Churchill Island is a 57 hectare island in Western Port, Victoria, Australia, Australia. It is connected by a bridge to Phillip Island . It is the site of the first European settlement in Victoria....
  • Corner Island
    Corner Island (Victoria)

    Corner Island is located in Corner Inlet Marine National Park at 38? 52? 58??S, 146? 19? 08??E approximately 2.5 km north of Millers Landing Wilson's Promontory in Victoria , Australia....
  • Duck Island
    Duck Island (Victoria)

    Duck Island, a small barrier island at , lies 1.5 km north of Swan Island and south of Edwards Point in the main entrance to Swan Bay from Port Phillip in southern Victoria, Australia....
  • Elizabeth Island
    Elizabeth Island (Victoria)

    Elizabeth Island lies just south of French Island in Western Port Bay , separated from it by inter-tidal mudflats and a small channel.It is a privately owned island, historically used for farming....
  • French Island
    French Island National Park

    French Island is located in Western Port, Victoria , Australia, 61 km southeast of Melbourne, Australia. In 1997 about 70 per cent of the island was declared the French Island National Park, and is listed in the register of the National Estate....
  • Gabo Island
    Gabo Island

    Gabo Island is a small island located off the coast of eastern Victoria, Australia, between Mallacoota, Victoria and Cape Howe on the border with New South Wales....
  • Griffiths Island
  • Herring Island
    Herring Island (Victoria)

    Herring Island is a small island located in Melbourne's Yarra River at South Yarra, Victoria, approximately 3km from the city. Originally a quarry, it was leased by the scouts in the 1950's and 1960's and is currently managed by Parks Victoria and used as a sculpture park....
  • Joe Island
    Joe Island (Victoria)

    Joe Island is an uninhabited island located in Western Port Bay approximately 1km north of French Island .External links...
  • Kanowna Island
    Kanowna Island (Victoria)

    Kanowna Island is located off the southern tip of Wilson's Promontory in Victoria , Australia.It is one of the four breeding colonies of Australian fur seal....
  • Lady Julia Percy Island
  • Mud Islands
    Mud Islands

    The Mud Islands reserve is located within Port Phillip, about 90 km south-west of Melbourne, Australia, lying 10 km inside Port Phillip Heads, 7 km north of Portsea, Victoria and 9 km east of Queenscliff, Victoria....
  • Norman Island
    Norman Island (Victoria)

    Norman Island is located approximately 4km west of Picnic Point, Wilson's Promontory in Victoria , Australia at 39? 01? S, 146? 15? E. It is proclaimed as a Remote and Natural Area under the National Parks Act....
  • Phillip Island
  • Raymond Island
    Raymond Island

    Raymond Island is a small island in the Gippsland Lakes, approximately 6 km long by 2 km wide, 200 metres off the coast of Paynesville in eastern Victoria , Australia, about 300 km from Melbourne, Victoria....
  • Rotamah Island
    Rotamah Island (Victoria)

    Rotamah Island, or Gellung-warl in the Kurnai language, is part of the Lakes National Park, in the Gippsland Lakes, about six kilometre from Paynesville, Victoria, from which it is accessible by boat....
  • Shellback Island
  • Snake Island
    Snake Island (Victoria)

    Snake Island is a 35 square kilometre sand island, the largest in Corner Inlet, Victoria , Australia. It lies within the Nooramunga Marine and Coastal Park and is part of a complex of barrier islands that protect a large marine embayment from the pounding waves of Bass Strait....
  • Sunday Island
    Sunday Island (Victoria)

    Sunday Island is a low-lying, sandy, 16.2 square kilometre shoal on the coast of Victoria, Australia. It is about 8 km long by 3 km wide and rises to a maximum height of no more than 15 m above mean sea level....
  • Swan Island
  • Tullaberga Island
    Tullaberga Island (Victoria)

    Tullaberga Island is an uninhabited granite island located west of Gabo Island and 7 km east of the Mallacoota Inlet entrance.On May 15, 1853 the S.S....


Western Australia
Western Australia

Western Australia is a States and territories of Australia occupying the entire western third of the Australia . The nation's largest state and the second largest subnational entity in the world, it has 2.1 million inhabitants , 85% of whom live in the south-west corner of the state....


  • Archipelago of the Recherche
    Archipelago of the Recherche

    Archipelago of the Recherche is a group of 105 islands, and over 1200 "obstacles to shipping", off the southern coast of Western Australia. The islands, also known as the Recherche Archipelago, stretch from East to West and to off-shore....
  • Barrow Island
  • Bonaparte Archipelago
  • Buccaneer Archipelago
    Buccaneer Archipelago

    The Buccaneer Archipelago is a group of islands off the coast of Western Australia near the town of Derby, Western Australia....
    • Cockatoo Island
  • Cape Leeuwin Islands
  • Carnac Island
    Carnac Island

    Carnac Island , Western Australia .Is an A Class nature reserve approximately 10 kilometres south west of Fremantle, Western AustraliaIn 1803, France explorer Louis de Freycinet, captain of the Casuarina, named the island ?le Pel?e ....
  • Dampier Archipelago
    Dampier Archipelago

    The Dampier Archipelago is a group of islands near Dampier, Western Australia. It is named after William Dampier, an English buccaneer and explorer who visited in 1699....
    • Rosemary Island
  • Dirk Hartog Island
    Dirk Hartog Island

    Dirk Hartog Island is an island off the Gascoyne coast of Western Australia, within the Shark Bay, Western Australia World Heritage Area. It is about 80 kilometres long and between 3 and 15 kilometres wide and is Western Australia's largest and most western island....
  • Garden Island
  • Houtman Abrolhos
    Houtman Abrolhos

    The Houtman Abrolhos is a chain of 122 islands, and associated coral reefs, in the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia. Nominally located at , it lies about eighty kilometres west of Geraldton, Western Australia....
    • Easter Group
      Easter Group

      The Easter Group is the central of three groups of islands that make up the Houtman Abrolhos island chain. Nominally located at , it is about 20 kilometres by 12 kilometres, and consists of a number of islands including Rat Island , Wooded Island, Morley Island, Suomi Island and Alexander Island ....
      • Alexander Island
        Alexander Island

        Alexander Island or Alexander I Island or Alexander I Land or Alexander Land or Alexander The First Island or Isla Alejandro I is the largest island of Antarctica, with an area of 18,946 mi? lying in the Bellingshausen Sea west of the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Marguerite Bay...
      • Morley Island
      • Rat Island
      • Suomi Island
      • Wooded Island
    • Pelsaert Group
      Pelsaert Group

      The Pelsaert Group is the southernmost of the three groups of islands that make up the Houtman Abrolhos island chain. Nominally located at , it consists of a number of islands, the largest of which are Gun Island, Middle Island , and Pelsaert Island....
      • Gun Island
        Gun Island

        Gun Island is one of the larger islands in the Pelsaert Group of the Houtman Abrolhos. It is nominally located at , about 4 km north and east of Half Moon Reef and is a flat limestone outcrop of about by in size....
      • Middle Island
        Middle Island

        Middle Island may refer to:* Middle Island, one of the Toronto Islands in Ontario, Canada* Middle Island , in Ontario and the southernmost point in Canada...
      • Pelsaert Island
    • Wallabi Group
      Wallabi Group

      The Wallabi Group is the northern-most group of islands in the Houtman Abrolhos. Nominally located at , it is 58 kilometres from the Australian mainland, and about 9 kilometres from the Easter Group....
      • Beacon Island
      • East Wallabi Island
        East Wallabi Island

        East Wallabi Island is an island in the Wallabi Group of the Houtman Abrolhos, located in the Indian Ocean off the west coast of mainland Australia....
      • Long Island
        Long Island

        Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, United States, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are Borough s of New York City, and two of which are mainly suburban....
      • North Island
        North Island

        The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, the other being the South Island. The island is 113,729 square km in area, making it the List of islands by area....
      • Pigeon Island
        Pigeon Island (Houtman Abrolhos)

        Pigeon Island is a small island located need the middle of the Wallabi Group of the Houtman Abrolhos, an archipelago off the coast of Western Australia....
      • West Wallabi Island
        West Wallabi Island

        West Wallabi Island is an island in the Wallabi Group of the Houtman Abrolhos, located in the Indian Ocean off the west coast of mainland Australia....
  • Lacepede Islands
    Lacepede Islands

    The Lacepede Islands, sometimes referred to simply as the Lacepedes, are a group of four islands nominally located at 16? 52' S 122? 09' E, in the Indian Ocean off the north-west coast of Western Australia, about 120 kilometres north of Broome, Western Australia....
  • Molloy Island
  • Montebello Islands
  • Ronsard Island
  • Rottnest Island
    Rottnest Island

    Rottnest Island is located 18 km off the coast of Western Australia Australia, near Fremantle, Western Australia. It is called Wadjemup by the Noongar people, meaning "place across the water"....
  • Rowley Shoals
    Rowley Shoals

    The Rowley Shoals is a group of three atoll-like coral reefs south of the Timor Sea, about 260 km west of Broome on the northwestern Australian coast, centered around , on the edge of one of the widest continental shelf in the world....
  • Scott and Seringapatam Reefs
    Scott and Seringapatam Reefs

    Scott and Seringapatam Reefs is a group of atoll-like reefs in the Timor Sea more than 300 km northwest of Cape Leveque, Western Australia, on the edge of the continental shelf....
  • Wedge Island
    Wedge Island

    Wedge Island is located north of Lancelin, Western Australia and South of Cervantes, Western Australia on the Western Australian coast. The name mainly refers to the mainland settlement but also refers to a long wedge shaped island located just south of "the point"....


External Territories

  • Ashmore and Cartier Islands
    Ashmore and Cartier Islands

    The Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands are two groups of small low-lying uninhabited tropical islands in the Indian Ocean situated on the edge of the continental shelf north-west of Australia and south of the Indonesian island of Rote Island at ....
  • Australian Antarctic Territory
    Australian Antarctic Territory

    The Australian Antarctic Territory is the part of Antarctica claimed by Australia and is the largest territory of Antarctica claimed by any nation....
    • Achernar Island
      Achernar Island

      Achernar Island is an island 1.5 miles long, lying 1 mile west of Shaula Island in the Oygarden Group. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37, and named Utoy ....
    • Masson Island
      Masson Island

      Masson Island or Mission Island is an ice-covered island about 17 miles long and rising to 465 m, lying 9 miles northwest of Henderson Island within the Shackleton Ice Shelf....
    • Hawker Island (68° 39'S, 77° 52'E)
    • Frazier Islands (66° 14'S, 110° 10'E)
    • Giganteus Island (67° 37'S, 62° 33'E)
  • Christmas Island
    Christmas Island

    The Territory of Christmas Island is a Territory of Australia in the Indian Ocean. It is located northwest of the Western Australian city of Perth, Western Australia, south of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, and ENE of the Cocos Islands....
  • Cocos (Keeling) Islands
    Cocos (Keeling) Islands

    The Territory of Cocos Islands, also called Cocos Islands and Keeling Islands, is a States and territories of Australia of Australia....
    • Horsburgh Island
      Horsburgh Island

      Horsburgh Island is one of the Cocos Islands. Its area is 1,04 square kilometers. There is a small lagoon in the interior of the island to the northeast....
    • North Keeling Island
  • Coral Sea Islands
    Coral Sea Islands

    The Coral Sea Islands Territory includes a group of small and mostly uninhabited tropical islands and reefs in the Coral Sea, northeast of Queensland, Australia....
    • Cato Island
    • Elizabeth Reef
      Elizabeth Reef

      Elizabeth Reef is a coral reef in the Tasman Sea. The reef is separated by a deep oceanic pass, some 45 km wide, from nearby Middleton Reef, both of which are part of the underwater plateau known as the Lord Howe Rise....
    • Middleton Reef
      Middleton Reef

      Middleton Reef is a coral reef in the Tasman Sea. It is separated by a deep oceanic pass some 45 km wide from nearby Elizabeth Reef, forming part of the Lord Howe Rise underwater plateau....
    • Willis Island
  • Heard Island and McDonald Islands
    Heard Island and McDonald Islands

    Heard Island and McDonald Islands are a volcanic group of Barren_vegetation islands located in the Southern Ocean, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica, approximately 4099 km west of Perth, Western Australia....
  • Norfolk Island
    Norfolk Island

    Norfolk Island is a small island in the Pacific Ocean located between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. It and two neighbouring islands form one of Australia's external Territory ....
    • Nepean Island
      Nepean Island (Norfolk Island)

      File:Norfolk Island Philip Island.jpgNepean Island is a small uninhabited island located at, about 1 km south off a golf course on Norfolk Island in the Southwest Pacific....
    • Phillip Island


See also

  • List of islands
    List of islands

    This is a list of islands in the world grouped by oceans and by continents. For rank-order lists, see the List_of_islands#Other_lists_of_islands below....
  • List of islands in the Pacific Ocean
  • List of islands in the Indian Ocean
    List of islands in the Indian Ocean

    This is a list of islands in the Indian Ocean....
  • List of islands of Asia