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Australia has thousands of islands within its territory and several external territories. 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.

Australian Capital Territory

New South Wales

  • Clark Island
  • Cockatoo Island
  • Dangar Island
  • Darling Island - no longer an island
  • Fort Denison - also known as Pinchgut
  • Garden Island - no longer an island
  • Glebe Island - no longer an island
  • Goat Island
  • Lion Island
  • Long Island - no longer an island
  • Lord Howe Island
  • Montague Island
  • Pinchgut - see Fort Denison
  • Rodd Island
  • Scotland Island
  • Shark Island
  • Snapper Island
  • Spectacle Island (in the Hawkesbury River)
  • Spectacle Island (in Sydney Harbour)
  • Solitary Islands
  • Woodford Island

    Northern Territory

  • Bathurst Island
  • Bickerton Island
  • Croker Island
  • Elcho Island
  • Groote Eylandt - Dutch for "Great Island"
  • Howard Island
  • Marchinbar Island
  • Melville Island
  • Sir Edward Pellew Group
  • Vanderlin Island
  • Wessel Islands
  • West Island, Torres Strait

    Queensland

  • Bay Islands
  • Bishop Island - no longer an island (Port of Brisbane wharves construction in the mouth of the Brisbane River extended over this island)
  • Bribie Island
  • Brisk Island
  • Curacoa Island
  • Daydream Island
  • Dunk Island
  • Esk Island
  • Eclipse Island
  • Fantome Island
  • Falcon Island
  • Fisherman's Island - no longer an island (Port of Brisbane wharves construction in the mouth of the Brisbane River extended over this island)
  • Fitzroy Island
  • Fraser Island
  • Great Keppel Island
  • Green Island
  • Hamilton Island
  • Heron Island
  • Hinchinbrook Island
  • Lizard Island
  • Magnetic Island
  • Moa Island, Queensland
  • Moreton Island
  • Mornington Island
  • North Stradbroke Island
  • Northumberland Islands
  • Orpheus Island
  • Palm Island
  • Pelorus Island
  • Prince of Wales Island, Queensland
  • Restoration Island
  • Saibai Island
  • Snapper Island
  • South Stradbroke Island
  • Sunday Island
  • Torres Strait Islands
  • Wellesley Islands
  • Whitsunday Islands

    South Australia

  • Granite Island
  • Hindmarsh Island
  • Kangaroo Island
  • Neptune Island
  • Nuyts Archipelago
  • Flinders Island
  • Pearson Isles

    Tasmania

  • Tasmania is a large island state off the south coast of the island continent of Australia
  • Bruny Island
  • Cape Barren Island
  • Clarke Island
  • De Witt Island
  • Flinders Island
  • King Island
  • Louisa Island
  • Maatsuyker Islands
  • Macquarie Island
  • Maria Island

    Victoria

  • Anser Island
  • Barrallier Island
  • Bennison Island
  • Chinaman Island
  • Churchill Island
  • Corner Island
  • Duck Island
  • Elizabeth Island
  • French Island
  • Gabo Island
  • Griffiths Island
  • Herring Island
  • Joe Island
  • Kanowna Island
  • Lady Julia Percy Island
  • Mud Islands
  • Norman Island
  • Phillip Island
  • Raymond Island
  • Rodondo Island
  • Rotamah Island
  • Shellback Island
  • Sunday Island
  • Swan Island
  • Tullaberga Island

    Western Australia

  • See also List of islands in Western Australia
  • Archipelago of the Recherche
  • Barrow Island
  • Bonaparte Archipelago
  • Buccaneer Archipelago
  • Cape Leeuwin Islands
  • Carnac Island
  • Dampier Archipelago
  • Dirk Hartog Island
  • Garden Island
  • Houtman Abrolhos
  • Lacepede Islands
  • Molloy Island
  • Montebello Islands
  • Rottnest Island
  • Rowley Shoals
  • Scott and Seringapatam Reefs

    External Territories

  • Ashmore and Cartier Islands
  • Christmas Island
  • Cocos (Keeling) Islands
  • Coral Sea Islands
  • Heard Island and McDonald Islands
  • Norfolk Island    

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