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Denham Island

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Location
  
Northern Australia

Area
  
3.9 kmĀ²

State
  
Queensland

Denham Island is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park at the tip of Cape Melville, Queensland in Bathurst Bay.

Map of Denham Island, Lakefield QLD 4892, Australia

It is the southernmost island in the Flinders Group National Park. It is south of Flinders Island. It is around 390 hectares or 3.9 square km in size.

Aboriginal mythology (Cooktown) states Denham Island as a major Moon-Myth site, believed to have been originally joined to Bathurst Heads but later pushed out by the moon.

References

Denham Island Wikipedia