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 1,000 square kilometres (390 sq mi) are:

• Tasmania (Tas) 64,519 square kilometres (24,911 sq mi);
• Melville Island, Northern Territory (NT), 5,786 square kilometres (2,234 sq mi);
• Kangaroo Island, South Australia (SA), 4,416 square kilometres (1,705 sq mi);
• Groote Eylandt (NT), 2,285 square kilometres (882 sq mi);
• Bathurst Island (NT), 1,693 square kilometres (654 sq mi);
• Fraser Island, Queensland (Qld), 1,653 square kilometres (638 sq mi);
• Flinders Island (Tas), 1,359 square kilometres (525 sq mi);
• King Island (Tas), 1,091 square kilometres (421 sq mi); and
• Mornington Island (Qld), 1,002 square kilometres (387 sq mi).

New South Wales

Northern Territory

Queensland

• Woody Island

South Australia

Ocean islands

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 100 hectares (250 acres). A full list of all 334 islands is located at the list of islands of Tasmania.

Victoria

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.

Australian territories

Jervis Bay Territory

• Bowen Island

Australian Capital Territory

• Kingston Island
• Pine Island
• Queen Elizabeth II Island
• Spinnaker Island
• Springbank Island

External territories

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

1. Lists of islands
2. List of islands by area
3. List of islands in the Pacific Ocean
4. List of islands of Western Australia
5. Geography of Australia
6. States and territories of Australia
7. List of islands of France
8. Coral Sea Islands
9. Sortable list of islands of Western Australia
10. Whitsunday Islands
11. Cocos (Keeling) Islands
12. List of islands of Indonesia
13. List of airlines of Australia
14. Heard Island and McDonald Islands
15. Australia (continent)
16. List of islands in the Indian Ocean
17. List of islands by population
18. List of islands of Perth, Western Australia
19. List of island countries
20. Mainland Australia