Coordinates: 21°30′S 149°40′E / 21.500°S 149.667°E / -21.500; 149.667

Northumberland Islands

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This article is about the island group in Australia. For the island in Greenland, see Northumberland Island.

Northumberland Islands
Native name:
Nu Tannik Ckelo
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Geography
LocationCoral Sea
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ArchipelagoNorthumberland Isles
Administration
Australia
StateQueensland
Demographics
Population150 (Tourism)
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The Northumberland Islands are a scattered island chain off the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia.[1]

Geography and history

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The Northumberland Islands are to the south-east of the city of Mackay roughly between the latitudes 21°S and 22°S. All islands are of the continental type. The island group was named by James Cook during his historic voyage along Australia's eastern seaboard in 1770, after the First Duke of Northumberland, Hugh Percy.[2] Both Cook and Matthew Flinders make note of the island group in their journals, Cook describing them as such:

As soon as we got round the Cape [Cape Townshend] we hauld our wind to the Westward in order to get within the Islands which lay scatter'd up and down in this bay [Shoalwater Bay] in great number, and extend out to Sea as far as we could see from the Masthead; how much farther will hardly be in my power to determine; they are as Various in their height and Circuit as they are numerous.[3]

In 1855, a botany expedition led by naturalist Frederick Strange visited the islands on his ship Vision. Four of the expedition were killed by Aboriginal people at Middle Percy Island. Those killed were Frederick Strange and his assistant Richard Spinks, William Spurling (ship's mate) and Andrew Gittings (ship's cook and steward). Captain Chimmo of the Royal Navy vessel HMS Torch, sailed to the island and conducted an investigation. He decided to take ten of the islanders prisoner. These prisoners, including three women and three children, were sent to Sydney for trial. One child died in custody and the rest were eventually shipped back to Gladstone.[4][5]

The island group is remote, and apart from charter flights to Marble Island they are accessible only by private yacht.

The Northumberland Islands are further subdivided into smaller groups: the Bedwell Group, Beverley Group, Broad Sound Islands, Duke Islands, Flat Isles, Guardfish Cluster and Percy Isles (within the locality The Percy Group). The islands are listed below, with the geographical coordinates of the largest islands given. Only the major islands of each group are listed.

Bedwell Group

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Name origin: Staff Commander E. P. Bedwell, surveyor[6]

  • Calliope Island
  • Connor Islet
  • Innes Island
  • George Island
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Beverley Group

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Name origin: Unknown[7]

  • Beverlac Island
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  • Double Island
  • Henderson Island
  • Hull Island
  • Keelan Island
  • Knight Island
  • Minster Island
  • Noel Island
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Broad Sound Islands

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Further information: Broad Sound Islands National Park

Name origin: Situated at the mouth of Broad Sound, a vast inlet named by Cook in 1770[8]

  • Long Island Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
  • Quail IslandLua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
  • Tern Island
  • Wild Duck Island Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.

Duke Islands

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File:Hunter Island looking toward Tynemouth Island.jpg
Western side of Hunter Island looking toward Tynemouth Island (Duke Islands)

Name origin: Unknown[9]

  • Alnwick Island
  • Bamborough Island
  • Cheviot Island
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  • High Peak Island Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
  • Hunter Island
  • Iron Islet Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
  • Marble Island Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
  • Otterbourne Island
  • Shields Island
  • Steep Island
  • Tweed Island
  • Tynemouth Island

Flat Isles

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Name origin: Named by Flinders in 1802 due to their height[10] - Avoid Island is the highest at 33 metres above sea level

  • Aquila Island Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
  • Avoid Island
  • Flock Pigeon Island Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
  • Red Clay Island

Guardfish Cluster

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Name origin: Unknown[11]

  • Bluff Island
  • Curlew Island Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
  • Tinonee Peak Island

Percy Isles

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File:A frame yacht club on Middle Percy Island, Australia.jpg
A-Frame yacht club on Middle Percy Island (Percy Isles)
See also: The Percy Group, Queensland

Name origin: Named by Flinders in 1802 after the Duke of Northumberland's family name[12]

  • Hotspur Island
  • Shrewsbury Rock
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  • North East Island
  • Pine Islet
  • Pine Peak Island
  • South Percy IslandLua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
  • Sphinx Island
  • Walter Island

See also

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References

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