Orpheus Island National Park is a national park on Orpheus Island, in North Queensland, Australia. The Aboriginal (possibly Nyawaygi) name for the island is Goolboddi.
It is a continental island, and is one of the Palm Islands group, northwest of Brisbane, as is Pelorus Island to the north. Both are in the Shire of Hinchinbrook. Besides Orpheus Island, the national park also includes Albino Rock, which lies east of Great Palm Island (usually known as Palm Island).
Prior to the arrival of Europeans, Orpheus Island was inhabited by an Aboriginal people, probably the Nyawigi. The name "Orpheus" was given to the island in 1887 by Lieutenant G. E. Richards, referring to HMS Orpheus, a Royal Navy ship which was wrecked off the coast of New Zealand in 1863. Since 2018, Reef Ecologic has run an annual reef restoration and leadership workshop at the research station. The group published a research paper on findings from citizen scientists on a rare, large coral bommie at Orpheus Island in 2021 A citizen science database using iNaturalist has recorded over 700 observations of 334 species with the most observed species the Australian Green Tree Frog
There is also a luxury resort on the island, the Orpheus Island Great Barrier Reef Luxury Resort.
Great Palm Island is the closest location with government facilities.
