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:

  • 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

thumb|[[K'gari, 2006]]

thumb|[[Great Keppel Island, 2007]]

thumb|[[Whitehaven Beach, Whitsunday Island, 2008]]

  • 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 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

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  • 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

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thumb|View of the Recherche Archipelago from Dempster Head

thumb|Middle Island, Recherche Archipelago 2011

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

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  • 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