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List of islands of Australia

This is a list of selected Australian islands grouped by state or territory. Australia has 8,222 islands within its maritime borders.

Largest islands
By area Australia is often referred to as an island continent as it is surrounded by ocean. Fringing islands larger than are: • Tasmania (Tas) ; • Melville Island, Northern Territory (NT), ; • Kangaroo Island, South Australia (SA), ; • Groote Eylandt (NT), ; • Bathurst Island (NT), ; • K'gari, Queensland (Qld), ; • Flinders Island (Tas), ; • King Island (Tas), ; and • Mornington Island (Qld), . By population Apart from the state of Tasmania (with a population of 570,000), the largest islands by population are those connected to major urban areas on the mainland by bridge, including Bribie Island near Brisbane with a population of 18,000, and Phillip Island near Melbourne with a population of 14,000. ==New South Wales==
New South Wales
, 1996 , the largest island in Sydney Harbour, 2008 , 2006 • Amherst Island, in Lake Mummuga • Ash Island, in the lower Hunter River • Bare Island, near the north headland of Botany Bay • Belowla Island, off Kioloa Beach • Bird Island, located off Budgewoi, Central CoastBoondelbah Island, at the mouth of Port Stephens • Brisbane Water: • Pelican IslandRiley's IslandSt Hubert's Island (largely artificial, created by raising an inter-tidal wetland above high water level) • Broughton Island, located north of Port StephensBroulee Island, located off the coast at BrouleeBrush Island, off Bawley Point • Cabbage Tree Island, at the mouth of Port Stephens • Cabbage Tree Island, in the Richmond River • Carter's Island, in Botany Bay near the mouth of George's River • Clarence River estuary: • Ashby IslandChatsworth IslandFreeburn IslandGoodwood IslandHarwood IslandMicalo IslandPalmers IslandThorny IslandWarregah IslandYargai IslandClark Island, in Sydney Harbour • Cockatoo Island, in Sydney Harbour, originally used as a prison and later developed as a shipyard • Comerong Island, in the Shoalhaven River estuary • Coocumbac Island, in the Manning River at Taree • Cook Island, located near Tweed HeadsCrampton Island, off the mouth of Lake Tabourie • Dalhunty Island, in Wilson River at Telegraph Point • Dangar Island, a small forested island in the Hawkesbury River • Darling Island, a former island subsequently bridged by land, part of Pyrmont, in Sydney Harbour • Elizabeth Island, in the Clarence River near Grafton • Esk Island, in the north arm of the Clarence River • Fatima Island, a tidal island of the Cook's River • Fattorini Island, in the Macleay River near Smithtown • Fort Denison, also known as PinchgutFive Islands Nature Reserve, a group of islands off the coast of Wollongong: • Bass IslandBig IslandMartin IslandRed IslandTom Thumb IslandGarden 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 • Green Island, off the mouth of Lake Conjola • Hexham Island, in the lower Hunter River • Honeysuckle Island, in Wallaga Lake • Horse Island, in Tuross Lake • Joass Island, located in Little Swan Bay, Port StephensKurrajong Island, in the Shoalhaven estuary • Lake Illawarra: • Berageree IslandBevan's IslandGooseberry IslandHooka IslandPicnic IslandCudgeree IslandKooragang Island, in the lower Hunter River • Lake Eucumbene: • Grace Lea IslandHallstrom IslandHeron IslandTeal IslandLion Island, in Broken Bay • Little Rawdon Island, in Hastings River downstream of Wauchope • Long Island, in the Hawkesbury River • Lord Howe Island, a small oceanic island in the Tasman Sea, east of the Australian mainland; it is the most remote island of Australia to not fall under external territory status • Ball's PyramidAdmiralty GroupManning River estuary: • Cabbage Tree Island • Dumaresq IslandMitchell's IslandOxley IslandMerriman Island, in Wallaga Lake • Milson Island, in the Hawkesbury River • Montague Island, east of Narooma on the south coast • Moon Island, 1 km off Swansea Heads • Muttonbird Island, off Coffs HarbourNewry Island, in the Kalang River near Urunga • Numbaa Island, in the Shoalhaven River • Payne's Island, in Wallaga Lake • Peat Island, in the Hawkesbury River • Pig Island, in the Shoalhaven River • Pimlico Island, in Richmond River near Wardell • Pinchgut - see Fort Denison, a former penal site and defensive facility in Sydney Harbour • Pulbah Island, the largest island in Lake Macquarie • Rawdon Island, in Hastings River downstream of Wauchope • Reedy Island, in Tuross Lake • Regatta Island, in Wallis Lake • Rodd Island, a small island in Iron Cove, an arm of Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) • Sanctuary Island, in Narrabeen Lagoon • Scotland Island, in Pittwater • Shark Island, in Sydney Harbour • Snapper Island, in Sydney Harbour • Spectacle Island, in the Hawkesbury River • Spectacle Island, in Sydney Harbour • Solitary IslandsNorth Solitary IslandSouth Solitary IslandSouthwest Solitary IslandMid Solitary IslandSplit Solitary IslandStott's Island, in Tweed River at Tumbuulgum • Stuart's Island, in Nambucca River at Bellwood • Sultan's Island off coast 4 km north of Eden • Susan Island, in Clarence River at Grafton • Teribah Island, at The Entrance, Tuggerah Lake • Tollgate Islands (2), in Bateman's Bay • Ukerebagh Island, in Tweed River at South Tweed Heads • Wallis Island, in Wallis Lake • Wasp Island, the only island in Durras Inlet near Batemans BayWedding Cake Island, a small island off the coast of Coogee • Windang Island, a small island at the entrance to Lake Illawarra • Woodford Island, in the Clarence River immediately upstream of Maclean • Yellow Rock Island, at junction of Bellinger and Kalang Rivers near Urunga ==Northern Territory==
Northern Territory
Bathurst IslandBickerton IslandBruney IslandCrocodile IslandsCroker IslandEast Woody IslandElcho IslandGoulburn IslandsGroote Eylandt - The name is an archaic spelling of the Dutch words for "Big Island" - Australia's 4th largest island • Howard IslandInglis IslandMarchinbar IslandMartjanba IslandMelville Island, the second largest island in Australia • Quail IslandSir Edward Pellew GroupTiwi IslandsVanderlin IslandWessel Islands ==Queensland==
Queensland
, 2006 , 2007 , Whitsunday Island, 2008 • Acheron IslandAgnes IslandAlbino RockAplin IsletArnold IsletsAvoid IslandBaird IslandBarber IslandBarrow IslandBayley IslandBedarra IslandBeesley IslandBentinck IslandBird IslandsBishop IslandBootie IslandBountiful IslandsBowden IslandBoyne IslandBrampton IslandBribie IslandBrisk IslandBrook Islands, three islands: North, Tween and Middle. • Bourke IslesBushy IslandBushy IsletCholmondeley IsletClack IslandClerke IslandCoconut IslandCoochiemudlo IslandCrab Island • Cordelia Rocks • Coquet IslandCuracoa IslandDenham Island, Cape York Peninsula • Denham Island, Wellesley Islands • Douglas Islet • Duncan IslandsDunk IslandEagle IslandEllis IslandEphraim IslandEsk IslandEclipse IslandFantome IslandFalcon IslandFisher IslandFisherman IslandFitzroy IslandFly IslandFrankland IslandsRussell IslandK'gari, the largest sand island in the world • Gebar IslandGoold IslandGore IslandGreat Keppel IslandGreat Palm IslandGreen IslandHaggerston IslandHales IslandHannibal IslandsHarvey IslandHeron IslandHigh IslandHinchinbrook IslandHorseshoe IslandHoughton IslandHudson IslandJessie IslandKangaroo IslandKent IslandKing IslandKumboola IslandLady Elliot IslandLady Musgrave IslandLeggatt IslandLindquist IslandLizard IslandLloyd IslandLow IslandLow Wooded IslandMabel IslandMakepeace IslandMagnetic IslandMilman IsletMoreton IslandMornington IslandMorris IslandMudjimba Island • Murdock Island • Nigger HeadNewton IslandNob IslandNoble IslandNormanby IslandNorth Direction IslandNorth Stradbroke IslandNorthumberland Islands • Bedwell Group • Beverley Group • Broad Sound Islands • Duke Islands • Flat Isles • Guardfish Cluster • Percy Isles • Orpheus IslandPaddy IslandPains IslandPalfrey IslandPeel IslandPelorus IslandPentecost IslandPercy IslandPerry IslandPigeon IslandPincushion IslandPipon IslandPrince of Wales IslandPumpkin IslandRaine IslandRestoration IslandRocky IslandRocky Point IslandRodney IslandRound IslandSt Helena IslandShaw IslandSherrard IslandSir Charles Hardy Islands • The Sisters • Sisters IslandsSnapper IslandSouth Direction IslandSouth Stradbroke IslandSouthern Moreton Bay IslandsRussell IslandMacleay Island • Perulpa Island (connected to Macleay Island by causeway) • Lamb IslandKarragarra IslandSaibai Island, in the Torres StraitStapleton IslandStephens IslandStruck IslandSunday IslandSunter IslandSweers IslandTalbot IslandsTern Island • Thomson Islet • Thorpe IslandThree IslandsThe Three SistersSue IsletTorres Strait IslandsTrochus IslandTurtle GroupWatson IslandWellesley IslandsNorth Wellesley Islands (Mornington, Moondalbee, Lingnoonganee, Pisonia, Lingeleah, Beahgoo, Jinke, Sydney, Tulburrerr, Denham, and Andrew Islands) • South Wellesley Islands (Allen, Horseshoe, Albinia, Bentinck, Fowler, and Sweers Islands) • West Wellesley Islands (Forsyth, Ivis, Pains, and Bayley Islands) • Wheeler IslandWhitsunday IslandsDaydream IslandDent IslandHamilton IslandHayman IslandHook IslandKeswick IslandLindeman IslandLong IslandSouth Molle IslandWhitsunday IslandWilson IslandWoody Island == South Australia ==
South Australia
on Kangaroo Island, 2007 Ocean islandsAlthorpe IslandsHaystack IslandSeal Island (Investigator Strait)Beatrice IsletsBicker IslesBird IslandsBoston IslandBusby IsletCasuarina IsletsChinamans Hat IslandCurlew IslandDouglas RockEntrance IslandGambier IslandsGarden IslandGoose IslandGranite IslandGrantham IslandGreenly IslandGrindal IslandInvestigator GroupFlinders IslandPearson IslesDorothee IslandPearson IslandVeteran IslesTopgallant IslandsWaldegrave IslandsWard IslandsJones IslandKangaroo Island, Australia's third-largest island • Liguanea IslandLipson IslandLouth IslandNeptune IslandsNicolas Baudin IslandNobby IsletNuyts ArchipelagoSt Francis IslandSt Peter IslandSmooth IslandMiddle IslandOwen IslandPaisley IsletPelorus IsletPullen Island • Rabbit Island, Coffin Bay • Rabbit Island, Louth Bay • Rabbit Islet, Pelican LagoonRoyston IslandSt Francis IslandSt Peter IslandShag IslandSir Joseph Banks GroupBlyth IslandBoucaut IslandDalby IslandDangerous ReefDuffield IslandEnglish IslandHareby IslandKirkby IslandLangton IslandLusby IslandMarum IslandPartney IslandReevesby IslandRoxby Island • Seal Rock • Sibsey IslandSpilsby IslandStickney IslandWinceby IslandSeal Island (Encounter Bay)South IslandTaylor IslandThistle IslandTorrens IslandTroubridge IslandTumby IslandUnnamed island, Baird BayWardang IslandWedge IslandWeeroona IslandWest IslandWright Island Murray River islands Hindmarsh IslandMundoo IslandPomanda Island • Rabbit Island, Coorong ==Tasmania==
Tasmania
harbour on King Island, 2007 Tasmania is a large island state off the south-east coast of mainland Australia. The main island of Tasmania (which includes 94% of the state's land area) does not have a defined name but can be referred to as the "Tasmanian mainland". There are 334 islands (or islets) within the state of Tasmania; with the main islands listed below, each having a land area greater than . A full list of all 334 islands is located at the list of islands of Tasmania. • Bruny IslandFurneaux Island GroupAnderson IslandBabel IslandBadger IslandBig Green IslandCape Barren IslandClarke IslandEast Kangaroo IslandFlinders IslandGoose IslandGreat Dog IslandLong IslandMount Chappell IslandHogan IslandHunter Island GroupHunter IslandRobbins IslandThree Hummock IslandKent Island GroupDeal IslandDover IslandErith IslandKing IslandMaatsuyker Islands GroupChicken IslandDe Witt IslandMaatsuyker IslandMacquarie IslandMaria IslandIle du NordPartridge Island • Petrel Island Group • Big Sandy Petrel IslandBig Stony Petrel IslandLittle Stony Petrel IslandSouth West Petrel IslandKangaroo IslandHowie IslandPicnic IslandRobbins IslandWalker Island (northwest)Rodondo IslandSchouten IslandSloping Island GroupSloping IslandSmooth Island (Tasmania) • Waterhouse Island Group • Swan IslandWaterhouse Island ==Victoria==
Western Australia
Australian territories
Jervis Bay TerritoryBowen Island Australian Capital TerritoryKingston IslandPine IslandQueen Elizabeth II IslandSpinnaker IslandSpringbank Island ==External territories==
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