List of Torres Strait Islands
The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands in the Torres Strait between Queensland, Australia and Papua New Guinea.
This is a list of the named islands and island groups in the Torres Strait. In addition there are unnamed islands and named and unnamed rocks.
Almost all of the islands in the Torres Strait are part of Australia; consequently all entries in this table are in Australia unless noted as being in Papual New Guinea.
Table of islands
Name | Other names | Location | Group | Population | Area | Freehold? | Notes |
Aipus Island | Belle Vue Islands | ||||||
Akone Islet | |||||||
Albany Island | Manar Group | ||||||
Allison Islet | Nur Islet | ||||||
Anchor Cay | |||||||
Arden Island | Garboy Island | Belle Vue Islands | |||||
Aubussi Island | Talbot Islands | ||||||
Aukane Islet | Bourke Isles | ||||||
Aureed Island | Bourke Isles | ||||||
Badu Island | Mulgrave Island | 690 | 97.8 | ||||
Barn Island | Parau Island | ||||||
Barney Island | Tuin | ||||||
Belle Vue Islands | |||||||
Bet Islet | Burrar Islet | The Three Sisters | 0 | 0.2 | |||
Boigu Island | Talbot Islands | 270 | 72.2 | ||||
Bond Island | |||||||
Booby Island | |||||||
Bourke Island | |||||||
Bourke Isles | |||||||
Bramble Cay | |||||||
Brewis Island | |||||||
Browne Island | Ngul | ||||||
Bush Islet | Manar Group | ||||||
Campbell Island | Tappoear Island | ||||||
Canoe Cay | |||||||
Canoe Island | Dadali | ||||||
Cap Islet | Muquar Island | Belle Vue Islands | |||||
Castle Island | Bakilai | ||||||
Channel Island | |||||||
Cheropo Island | |||||||
Clarke Island | Tukupai | ||||||
Coconut Island | Poruma Island, Parremar Island, Cocoa Nut Island | 180 | 0.54 | ||||
Crab Island | Moent | ||||||
Dalrymple Islet | Damuth Island | ||||||
Darnley Island | Erub Island | 316 | 5.5 | ||||
Daua Island | Dowar Island, Dauar | 0.37 | |||||
Dauan Island | Cornwallis Island | Murray Islands | 120 | 4 | |||
Dayman Island | Teran | ||||||
Deliverance Island | Warul Kawa | ||||||
Dove Islet | |||||||
Dugong Islet | |||||||
Dumaralug Island | |||||||
Duncan Islands | |||||||
East Cay | |||||||
East Strait Island | |||||||
Eborac Island | Manar Group | ||||||
Entrance Island | Zuna Island | ||||||
Farewell Islets | |||||||
Flat Islet | |||||||
Florence Island | Talab | Belle Vue Islands | |||||
Friday Island | Gealug Island | 20 | 4.8 | ||||
Gabba Island | Gerbar Island | ||||||
Gainaulai Islet | |||||||
Getullai Island | |||||||
Goods Island | Palilug | ||||||
Great Woody Island | Kai Yalubi Island | ||||||
Green Islet | Ilapnab | ||||||
Half Way Island | |||||||
Hammond Island | Keriri Island | 204 | 14.5 | ||||
Hawkesbury Island | Warral Island | ||||||
High Island | Wurrka | ||||||
High Island | Wia | ||||||
Horn Island | Narupai | 650 | 53.8 | ||||
Iadi Island | Belle Vue Islands | ||||||
Ida Island | Manar Group | ||||||
Johnson Islet | |||||||
Kabbikane Islet | Bourke Isles | ||||||
Kamutnab Islet | Belle Vue Islands | ||||||
Kanig Island | Duncan Islands | ||||||
Kapuda Islet | |||||||
Karniga Island | |||||||
Kaub Islets | Belle Vue Islands | ||||||
Kaumag Island | |||||||
Keatinge Islet | |||||||
Keats Island | Homogar Islet ?, Umaga Parish | Yorke Islands | |||||
Kerr Islet | |||||||
Kodall Island | Yorke Islands | ||||||
Kongan Rock | Belle Vue Islands | ||||||
Kunai Islet | |||||||
Lacey Island | |||||||
Layoak Islet | Bourke Isles | ||||||
Little Adolphus Island | |||||||
Little Ida Island | |||||||
Little Roko Island | |||||||
Little Woody Island | Meggi Yalubi Island | ||||||
Lowry Islet | |||||||
Mabuiag Island | Jervis Island | Belle Vue Islands | 50 | 7.5 | |||
Mai Islet | |||||||
Markilug Islet | Markailag | ||||||
Marsden Islet | Eegarbu | Yorke Islands | |||||
Marte Island | Belle Vue Islands | ||||||
Masig Island | Yorke Islands | ||||||
Meddler Island | Gaibait | ||||||
Meer Island | Maer Island, Mer Island, Murray Island | Murray Islands | 485 | 4.29 | |||
Meth Islet | Duncan Islands | ||||||
Middle Brother | Manar Group | ||||||
Mimi Islet | Bourke Isles | ||||||
Mipa Islet | Belle Vue Islands | ||||||
Moa Island | Banks Island | 394 | 171.7 | ||||
Moimi Island | Talbot Islands | ||||||
Morilug Islet | |||||||
Mouinndo Islet | |||||||
Mount Adolphus Island | Mori | ||||||
Mount Ernest Island | Nagheer Island | ||||||
Murangi Islet | |||||||
Murray Islands | |||||||
Nepean Island | Attagoy Island | ||||||
Nicklin Islet | |||||||
North Brother | |||||||
North Island | |||||||
North Island | |||||||
North Possession Island | Iem Island | ||||||
North West Islet | |||||||
Obelisk Islet | |||||||
Packe Island | Tarilag Island | Thursday Islands | 10 | 0.7 | |||
Parama Island | Bampton | Papua New Guinea | |||||
Passage Island | Bupu | Belle Vue Islands | |||||
Pearce Cay | Mallicamas | ||||||
Pelican Islet | Belle Vue Islands | ||||||
Phipps Island | Zurat | ||||||
Pita Dabai Island | |||||||
Poll Islet | Guijar Islet | The Three Sisters | |||||
Port Lihou Island | Yeta | Inner islands | |||||
Portlock Island | Kulbi | ||||||
Possession Island | Tuined, Bedanug | ||||||
Prince of Wales Island | Muralag Island | 20 | 204.6 | ||||
Puigulag Islet | Belle Vue Islands | ||||||
Pulu Islet | Belle Vue Islands | ||||||
Pumpkin Island | Ngurthai | ||||||
Pururai Islet | Belle Vue Islands | ||||||
Quoin Island | Yes | ||||||
Red Fruit Islet | Belle Vue Islands | ||||||
Red Island | |||||||
Red Wallis Island | |||||||
Rennel Island | Mauar | Yorke Islands | |||||
Roberts Islet | Bourke Isles | ||||||
Roko Island | |||||||
Round Island | |||||||
Round Island | |||||||
Saddle Island | |||||||
Saibai Island | 317 | 107.9 | |||||
Salter Island | |||||||
Sassie Island | |||||||
Scott Island | Belle Vue Islands | ||||||
Smith Cay | Yorke Islands | ||||||
South Brother | |||||||
South Island | Aia | ||||||
Spencer Island | Kulbai Kulbai | ||||||
Stephens Island | Hogar, Ugar Island | 100 | 0.35 | ||||
Stonehenge | Gainaulai Islet | ||||||
Suarji Island | |||||||
Subur Islet | Belle Vue Islands | ||||||
Sue Islet | Warraber Islet | The Three Sisters | 216 | 0.8 | |||
Tern Island | |||||||
Tetley Island | |||||||
The Three Sisters | |||||||
Three Month Island | |||||||
Thursday Island | Wai-Ben, Waiben | 2,682 | 3.5 | ||||
Tik Island | |||||||
Tobin Cay | |||||||
Tobin Island | Zagarsum | ||||||
Travers Island | Warral Island | ||||||
Tree Island | |||||||
Tree Island | Iul Island | ||||||
Trochus Island | |||||||
Tudu Island | |||||||
Tuesday Islets | |||||||
Tuluaa Islet | |||||||
Turnagain Island | Buru Island | ||||||
Turtle Head Island | |||||||
Turtle Island | Yes | ||||||
Turtle Island | #35422 | ||||||
Turu Cay | |||||||
Twin Island | Nelgee Island | ||||||
Underdown Islet | |||||||
Wai-Weer Islet | |||||||
Warakuikul Talab Island | Middle Island | Belle Vue Islands | |||||
Wassel Island | |||||||
Watson Cay | |||||||
Waua Islet | Wyer Island, Waier Island | Murray Islands | 0.22 | ||||
Wednesday Island | Maururra | ||||||
West Island | Ului | ||||||
Whale Island | Matu | ||||||
Widul Island | Belle Vue Islands | ||||||
Wilson Island | Maitak | Duncan Islands | |||||
Womer Cay | |||||||
Woody Wallis Island | |||||||
Wuwurrka Islet | |||||||
Yam Island | Iama, Turtle Backed Island | Bourke Isles | 338 | 2.6 | |||
Yargas Island | |||||||
York Island | |||||||
Yorke Island | Masig Island | 100 | 2 | ||||
Yorke Islands | |||||||
Zagai Island | Dungeness Island |