Northumberland Islands Totally Explained

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Australia's Northumberland Islands are a scattered island chain off the Queensland coast, located 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 (External Link

). Both Cook and Matthew Flinders make note of the island group in their journals, Cook describing them as such:
ť As soon as we got round the Cape [CapeTownshend] we hauld our wind to the Westward in order to get within the Islands which lay scatter'd up and down in this bay [ShoalwaterBay] 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're as Various in their height and Circuit as they're numerous. (External Link

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The island group is remote, and apart from charter flights to Marble Island 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 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

Name origin: Staff Commander E. P. Bedwell, surveyor (External Link

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Beverley Group

Name origin: Unknown (External Link

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Beverlac Island

Digby Island (21°30'S, 149°56'E)

Prudhoe Island (21°19'S, 149°41'E)

Broad Sound Islands

Name origin: Situated at the mouth of Broad Sound, a vast inlet named by Cook in 1770 (External Link

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Long Island (22°10'S, 149°53'E)

Quail Island (22°08'S, 149°59'E)

Tern Island

Wild Duck Island (22°01'S, 149°52'E)

Duke Islands

Name origin: Unknown (External Link

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Alnwick Island

Bamborough Island

Cheviot Island

Hexham Island (22°02'S, 150°22'E)

High Peak Island (21°57'S, 150°41'E)

Hunter Island

Marble Island(21°59'S, 150°11'E)

Tynemouth Island

Flat Isles

Name origin: Named by Flinders in 1802 due to their height (External Link

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Aquila Island (21°58'S, 149°33'E)

Avoid Island

Flock Pigeon Island (22°08'S, 149°34'E)

Red Clay Island

Guardfish Cluster

Name origin: Unknown (External Link

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Bluff Island

Curlew Island (21°37'S, 149°48'E)

Tinonee Peak Island

Percy Isles

Name origin: Named by Flinders in 1802 after the Duke of Northumberland's family name (External Link

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Hotspur Island

Middle Percy Island (21°39'S, 150°16'E)

North East Island

Pine Islet

Pine Peak Island

South Percy Island(21°46'S, 150°20'E)

Sphinx Island

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