List of islands of Australia

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
The islands larger than are:
Tasmania (Tas) ;
Melville Island, Northern Territory (NT), ;
Kangaroo Island, South Australia (SA), ;
Groote Eylandt (NT), ;
Bathurst Island (NT), ;
K'gari (Fraser Island), Queensland (Qld), ;
Flinders Island (Tas), ;
King Island (Tas), ; and
Mornington Island (Qld), .
New South Wales
Amherst Island, in Lake Mummuga
Bare Island, near the north headland of Botany Bay
Belowla Island, off Kioloa Beach
Bird Island, located near Budgewoi, east of the Central Coast
Boondelbah Island, at the mouth of Port Stephens
Brisbane Water:
Pelican Island
Riley's Island
St Hubert's Island (largely artificial, created by raising an inter-tidal wetland above high water level)
Broughton Island, located north of Port Stephens
Broulee Island, located off the coast at Broulee
Brush 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 Island
Chatsworth Island
Freeburn Island
Goodwood Island
Harwood Island
Micalo Island
Palmers Island
Thorny Island
Warregah Island
Yargai Island
Clark 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 Heads
Crampton 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, 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 Pinchgut
Five Islands Nature Reserve, a group of islands off the coast of Wollongong:
Bass Island
Big Island
Martin Island
Red Island
Tom Thumb Island
Garden 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 Stephens
Kurrajong Island, in the Shoalhaven estuary
Lake Illawarra:
Berageree Island
Bevan's Island
Gooseberry Island
Hooka Island
Picnic Island
Cudgeree Island
Kooragang Island, in the lower Hunter River
Lake Eucumbene:
Grace Lea Island
Hallstrom Island
Heron Island
Teal Island
Lion 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 Pyramid
Admiralty Group
Manning River estuary:
Cabbage Tree Island
Dumaresq Island
Mitchell's Island
Oxley Island
Merriman 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 Harbour
Newry 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 Islands
North Solitary Island
South Solitary Island
Southwest Solitary Island
Mid Solitary Island
Split Solitary Island
Stott'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 Bay
Wedding 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
Bathurst Island
Bickerton Island
Bruney Island
Crocodile Islands
Croker Island
East Woody Island
Elcho Island
Goulburn Islands
Groote Eylandt - The name is an archaic spelling of the Dutch words for "Big Island" - Australia's 4th largest island
Howard Island
Inglis Island
Marchinbar Island
Martjanba Island
Melville Island, the second largest island in Australia
Quail Island
Sir Edward Pellew Group
Tiwi Islands
Vanderlin Island
Wessel Islands
Queensland
Acheron Island
Agnes Island
Albino Rock
Aplin Islet
Arnold Islets
Avoid Island
Baird Island
Barber Island
Barrow Island
Bayley Island
Bedarra Island
Beesley Island
Bentinck Island
Bird Islands
Bishop Island
Bootie Island
Bountiful Islands
Bowden Island
Boyne Island
Brampton Island
Bribie Island
Brisk Island
Brook Islands, three islands: North, Tween and Middle.
Bourke Isles
Bushy Island
Bushy Islet
Cholmondeley Islet
Clack Island
Clerke Island
Coconut Island
Coochiemudlo Island
Crab Island
Cordelia Rocks
Coquet Island
Curacoa Island
Denham Island, Cape York Peninsula
Denham Island, Wellesley Islands
Douglas Islet
Duncan Islands
Dunk Island
Eagle Island
Ellis Island
Ephraim Island
Esk Island
Eclipse Island
Fantome Island
Falcon Island
Fisher Island
Fisherman Island
Fitzroy Island
Fly Island
Frankland Islands
Russell Island
K'gari, the largest sand island in the world
Goold Island
Gore Island
Great Keppel Island
Great Palm Island
Green Island
Haggerston Island
Hales Island
Hannibal Islands
Harvey Island
Heron Island
High Island
Hinchinbrook Island
Horseshoe Island
Houghton Island
Hudson Island
Jessie Island
Kangaroo Island
Kent Island
King Island
Kumboola Island
Lady Elliot Island
Lady Musgrave Island
Leggatt Island
Lindquist Island
Lizard Island
Lloyd Island
Low Island
Low Wooded Island
Mabel Island
Makepeace Island
Magnetic Island
Milman Islet
Moreton Island
Mornington Island
Morris Island
Mudjimba Island
Murdock Island
Nigger Head
Newton Island
Nob Island
Noble Island
Normanby Island
North Direction Island
North Stradbroke Island
Northumberland Islands
Bedwell Group
Beverley Group
Broad Sound Islands
Duke Islands
Flat Isles
Guardfish Cluster
Percy Isles
Orpheus Island
Paddy Island
Pains Island
Palfrey Island
Peel Island
Pelorus Island
Pentecost Island
Percy Island
Perry Island
Pigeon Island
Pincushion Island
Pipon Island
Prince of Wales Island
Pumpkin Island
Raine Island
Restoration Island
Rocky Island
Rocky Point Island
Rodney Island
Round Island
St Helena Island
Shaw Island
Sherrard Island
Sir Charles Hardy Islands
The Sisters
Sisters Islands
Snapper Island
South Direction Island
South Stradbroke Island
Southern Moreton Bay Islands
Russell Island
Macleay Island
Perulpa Island (connected to Macleay Island by causeway)
Lamb Island
Karragarra Island
Saibai Island, in the Torres Strait
Stephens Island
Struck Island
Sunday Island
Sunter Island
Sweers Island
Talbot Islands
Tern Island
Thomson Islet
Thorpe Island
Three Islands
The Three Sisters
Sue Islet
Torres Strait Islands
Trochus Island
Turtle Group
Watson Island
Wellesley Islands
North 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 Island
Whitsunday Islands
Daydream Island
Dent Island
Hamilton Island
Hayman Island
Hook Island
Keswick Island
Lindeman Island
Long Island
South Molle Island
Whitsunday Island
Wilson Island
Woody Island
South Australia
Ocean islands
Althorpe Islands
Haystack Island
Seal Island (Investigator Strait)
Beatrice Islets
Bicker Isles
Bird Islands
Boston Island
Busby Islet
Casuarina Islets
Chinamans Hat Island
Curlew Island
Douglas Rock
Entrance Island
Gambier Islands
Garden Island
Goose Island
Granite Island
Grantham Island
Greenly Island
Grindal Island
Investigator Group
Flinders Island
Pearson Isles
Dorothee Island
Pearson Island
Veteran Isles
Topgallant Islands
Waldegrave Islands
Ward Islands
Jones Island
Kangaroo Island, Australia's third-largest island
Liguanea Island
Lipson Island
Louth Island
Neptune Islands
Nicolas Baudin Island
Nobby Islet
Nuyts Archipelago
St Francis Island
St Peter Island
Smooth Island
Middle Island
Owen Island
Paisley Islet
Pelorus Islet
Pullen Island
Rabbit Island, Coffin Bay
Rabbit Island, Louth Bay
Rabbit Islet, Pelican Lagoon
Royston Island
St Francis Island
St Peter Island
Shag Island
Sir Joseph Banks Group
Blyth Island
Boucaut Island
Dalby Island
Dangerous Reef
Duffield Island
English Island
Hareby Island
Kirkby Island
Langton Island
Lusby Island
Marum Island
Partney Island
Reevesby Island
Roxby Island
Seal Rock
Sibsey Island
Spilsby Island
Stickney Island
Winceby Island
Seal Island (Encounter Bay)
South Island
Taylor Island
Thistle Island
Torrens Island
Troubridge Island
Tumby Island
Unnamed island, Baird Bay
Wardang Island
Wedge Island
Weeroona Island
West Island
Wright Island
Murray River islands
Hindmarsh Island
Mundoo Island
Pomanda Island
Rabbit Island, Coorong
Tasmania
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 Island
Furneaux Island Group
Anderson Island
Babel Island
Badger Island
Big Green Island
Cape Barren Island
Clarke Island
East Kangaroo Island
Flinders Island
Goose Island
Great Dog Island
Long Island
Mount Chappell Island
Hogan Island
Hunter Island Group
Hunter Island
Robbins Island
Three Hummock Island
Kent Island Group
Deal Island
Dover Island
Erith Island
King Island
Maatsuyker Islands Group
Chicken Island
De Witt Island
Maatsuyker Island
Macquarie Island
Maria Island
Ile du Nord
Partridge Island
Petrel Island Group
Big Sandy Petrel Island
Big Stony Petrel Island
Little Stony Petrel Island
South West Petrel Island
Kangaroo Island
Howie Island
Picnic Island
Robbins Island
Walker Island (northwest)
Rodondo Island
Schouten Island
Sloping Island Group
Sloping Island
Smooth Island (Tasmania)
Waterhouse Island Group
Swan Island
Waterhouse Island
Victoria
Anser Island
Barrallier Island
Bennison Island
Chinaman Island
Churchill Island
Corner Island
Duck Island
Elizabeth Island
French Island
Gabo Island
Griffiths Island
Joe Island
Kanowna Island
Lady Julia Percy Island
Mud Islands
Norman Island
Phillip Island
Raymond Island
Rotamah Island
Sandstone Island
Shellback Island
Snake Island
Sunday Island
Swan Island
Tullaberga Island
Mangrove Islet
River islands
Beveridge Island
Coode Island
Gunbower Island
Herring Island
Jordan's Island
Pental Island
Western Australia
Over 1,000 islands have been gazetted – only the island groups and major islands are listed.
Ashmore Reef
Barrow Island
Bonaparte Archipelago
Buccaneer Archipelago
Cockatoo Island
Cape Leeuwin Islands
Carnac Island
Dampier Archipelago
Dirk Hartog Island
Garden Island
Houtman Abrolhos
Easter Group
Pelsaert Group
Wallabi Group
Lacepede Islands
Lowendal Islands
Mary Anne Group
Montebello Islands
Recherché Archipelago
Rottnest Island
Rowley Shoals
Scott and Seringapatam Reefs
Shark Bay islands
Wedge Island
Australian territories
Jervis Bay Territory
Bowen Island
Australian Capital Territory
Kingston Island
Pine Island
Queen Elizabeth II Island
Spinnaker Island
Springbank Island
External territories
Ashmore and Cartier Islands
Australian Antarctic Territory
Achernar Island
Masson Island
Hawker Island
Frazier Islands
Giganteus Island
Christmas Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Horsburgh Island
Home Island
North Keeling Island
West Island
Coral Sea Islands
Cato Island
Elizabeth Reef
Middleton Reef
Willis Island
Heard Island and McDonald Islands
Norfolk Island
Nepean Island
Phillip Island
See also
List of islands
List of islands in the Pacific Ocean
List of islands in the Indian Ocean
List of islands of Asia
List of Torres Strait Islands
References
Australia, Lists of islands of
Australia