Isole dell'Australia
Questa è una lista non esaustiva delle isole dell'Australia ordinate per stato o territorio.
Isole principali
L'Australia ha 8.222 isole entro i suoi confini marittimi. Le 9 più estese (sopra i 1.000 km²) sono[1]:
# | Isola | Superficie | Abitanti |
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1 | Tasmania | 68.332 km² | 541.000 |
2 | Isola Melville | 5.786 km² | |
3 | Isola dei Canguri | 4.416 km² | 4000 |
4 | Groote Eylandt | 2.285 km² | |
5 | Isola Bathurst | 1.693 km² | |
6 | Isola di Fraser | 1.653 km² | 360 |
7 | Isola Flinders | 1.359 km² | |
8 | Isola King | 1.091 km² | 1565 |
9 | Isola Mornington | 1.002 km² | 1007 |
Australia Meridionale
- Gambier Islands
- Wedge Island
- Granite Island
- Kangaroo Island, la terza più vasta isola dell'Australia dopo Tasmania ed Isola Melville
- Neptune Islands
- Nuyts Archipelago
- St Francis Island
- St Peter Island
- Investigator Group
- Flinders Island
- Pearson Island
- Sir Joseph Banks Group
- Taylor Island
- Thistle Island
- West Island
Australia Occidentale
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- Arcipelago Recherche
- Middle Island
- Bernier Island
- Barrow Island
- Bonaparte Archipelago
- Augustus Island
- Bigge Island
- Boongaree Island
- Coronation Island
- Jungulu Island
- Buccaneer Archipelago
- Cockatoo Island
- Hidden Island
- Irvine island
- Koolan Island
- Carnac Island
- Chatham Island
- Dampier Archipelago
- Dirk Hartog Island
- Dorre Island
- Faure Island
- Garden Island
- Governor Islands
- Houtman Abrolhos
- Easter Group
- Alexander Island
- Morley Island
- Rat Island
- Suomi Island
- Wooded Island
- Pelsaert Group
- Gun Island
- Middle Island
- Pelsaert Island
- Wallabi Group
- Beacon Island
- East Wallabi Island
- Long Island
- North Island
- Pigeon Island
- West Wallabi Island
- Easter Group
- Institut Islands
- Lacepede Islands
- Montebello Islands
- Osborn Islands
- Rottnest Island
- Rowley Shoals
- Scott and Seringapatam Reefs
- Sir Graham Moore Island
- St Alouarn Islands
- Wedge Island
Nuovo Galles del Sud
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- Bare Island, presso la costa nord della Botany Bay
- Broughton Island
- Chatsworth Island, nel Clarence River
- Dangar Island, piccola isola boscosa nel fiume Hawkesbury
- Esk Island, nel braccio settentrionale del Clarence River
- Five Islands, un gruppo di isole presso Wollongong
- Green Island, isolotto a nord di Smoky Cape
- Harwood Island nel Clarence River
- Lion Island, alla foce del fiume Hawkesbury
- Long Island, nel fiume Hawkesbury
- Lord Howe Island, piccola isola nell'Oceano Pacifico 600 km ad est della costa australiana
- Montague Island, 9 km al largo di Narooma
- Oxley Island
- All'interno di Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour):
- Clark Island
- Cockatoo Island, originariamente usata come prigione ed evolutasi poi come cantiere navale
- Fort Denison, anche nota come Pinchgut
- Goat Island
- Rodd Island, isolotto sul fiume Parramatta
- Shark Island
- Snapper Island
- Spectacle Island
- Pulbah Island, l'isola più vasta del Lago Macquarie
- Scotland Island, isola a nord di Sydney
- Solitary Islands
- Wasp Island, isola presso Batemans Bay[2]
- Woodford Island, isola nel Clarence River
Queensland
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- Bribie Island
- Brook Islands (North, Tween, Middle e South)
- Isole Capricorn e Bunker
- Coochiemudlo Island
- Curtis Island
- Family Islands
- Fitzroy Island
- Flinders Group
- Flinders Island
- Frankland Islands
- Fraser Island, la più vasta isola di sabbia del mondo
- Goold Island
- Great Keppel Island
- Green Island
- Hinchinbrook Island
- Hope Islands
- Howick Group
- Lizard Island
- Magnetic Island
- Moreton Island
- North Stradbroke Island
- Northumberland Islands
- Palm Islands
- Barber Island
- Brisk Island
- Curacoa Island
- Esk Island
- Eclipse Island
- Falcon Island
- Fantome Island
- Fly Island
- Great Palm Island
- Havannah Island
- Orpheus Island
- Pelorus Island
- Peel Island
- Snapper Island
- South Stradbroke Island
- Southern Moreton Bay Islands
- Sunday Island
- Torres Strait Islands
- Badu Island
- Boigu Island
- Hammond Island
- Horn Island
- Moa Island
- Possession Island
- Prince of Wales Island
- Saibai Island
- Thursday Island
- Townshend Island
- Wellesley Islands
- Whitsunday Islands
Tasmania
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- Bruny Island
- Eddystone
- Isole Furneaux
- Goat Island
- Hogan Group
- Hunter Island Group
- Albatross Island
- Hunter Island
- Three Hummock Island
- Ile du Golfe
- Kent Group
- Deal Island
- King Island
- Louisa Island
- Maatsuyker Islands
- Macquarie Island
- Maria Island
- Mewstone
- Pedra Branca
- Robbins Island
- Rodondo Island
- Sarah Island
- Schouten Island
- Tasman Island Group
- Tasmania, la più grande isola dell'Australia (esclusa la terraferma)
- Waterhouse Island Group
- Waterhouse Island
- Swan Island
Territorio della baia di Jervis
- Bowen Island
Territorio della capitale australiana
- Aspen Island
- Pine Island
- Spinnaker Island
- Springbank Island
Territorio del Nord
- Bickerton Island
- Crocodile Islands
- Croker Island
- Goulburn Islands
- Groote Eylandt (in olandese "grande isola")
- Peron Islands
- Sir Edward Pellew Islands
- Vanderlin Island
- Sir George Hope Islands
- The English Company's Islands
- Tiwi Islands
- Bathurst Island
- Melville Island, la seconda più vasta isola dell'Australia dopo la Tasmania
- Vernon Islands
- Wessel Islands
Victoria
- Anser Island
- French Island
- Elizabeth Island
- Gabo Island
- Great Glennie Island
- Griffiths Island
- Herring Island
- Lady Julia Percy Island
- Mud Islands
- Norman Island
- Phillip Island
- Churchill Island
- Raymond Island
- Shellback Island
- Snake Island
- Sunday Island
- Swan Island
Territori esterni
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- Ashmore and Cartier Islands
- Christmas Island
- Cocos and Keeling Islands
- Home Island
- Horsburgh 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
- Territorio antartico australiano
- Achernar Island
- Frazier Islands (66°14'S, 110°10'E)[3]
- Giganteus Island (67°37'S, 62°33'E)[3]
- Hawker Island (68°39'S, 77°52'E)[3]
- Masson Island
Note
- ^ National Mapping - Fab Facts, Landforms, Australian Islands Archiviato il 22 agosto 2008 in Internet Archive..
- ^ The Inlet that Eluded Bass Archiviato il 10 aprile 2013 in Internet Archive., Clyde Coast Links.
- ^ a b c National recovery plan for Albatrosses and Giant-petrels: Section 4.1.6 Australian Antarctic Territory, Dipartimento dell'Ambiente, dell'Acqua, del Patrimonio e delle Arti, Governo Australiano.
Voci correlate
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