This is a list of islands of Australia. Australia has 8,222 islands within its maritime borders. The largest islands are, Tasmania 68,332 km²; Melville Island 5,786 km²; Kangaroo Island, 4,416 km²; Groote Eylandt, 2,285 km²; Bathurst Island, 1,693km²; Fraser Island 1,653km²; Flinders Island, 1,359 km²; King Island 1,091 km²; Mornington Island, 1 002 km². ,[1] This is a list of selected Australian islands grouped by state or territory. Australia is often called the island continent, although this is something of a contradiction in terms.
- Bowen Island in the Jervis Bay Territory
- Chatsworth Island in the Clarence River
- Clark Island, an island in Sydney Harbour
- Cockatoo Island, an island in Sydney Harbour; originally used as a prison and later developed as a shipyard
- Dangar Island, a small forested island in the Hawkesbury River
- Darling Island - no longer an island
- Esk Island - north arm of Clarence River
- Fort Denison - also known as Pinchgut
- Five Islands Nature Reserve A group of islands off the coast near Wollongong
- 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
- Harwood Island in the Clarence River
- Lion Island, located at the entrance to the Hawkesbury River
- Long Island, in the Hawkesbury River
- Lord Howe Island, a small island in the Pacific Ocean 600 kilometres (373 mi) east of the Australian mainland
- Montague Island, 9 kilometres offshore from Narooma on the south coast of New South Wales
- Muttonbird Island an island off Coffs Harbour
- Oxley Island
- Pinchgut - see Fort Denison, a former penal site and defensive facility in Sydney Harbour
- Pulbah Island, an island in Lake Macquarie
- Rodd Island, a small island on the Parramatta River
- Scotland Island, an island in the north of Sydney
- Shark Island, an island in Sydney Harbour
- Snapper Island, an island in Sydney Harbour
- Spectacle Island, an island located in Australia's Hawkesbury River
- Spectacle Island, an island in Sydney Harbour
- Solitary Islands
- Wasp Island, the only island in Durras Inlet near Batemans Bay[2]
- Woodford Island, an inland island in the Far-North Coast of New South Wales
Tasmania is a large island state off the south coast of the island continent of Australia. Islands that are in the State of Tasmania are: 240 islands listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Islands_of_Tasmania
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