Location Northern Australia | State Queensland | |
Pipon Island or (Walmbaywi) is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park at the tip of Cape Melville, Queensland.
Map of Pipon Island, Starcke QLD 4895, Australia
Pipon Island contains a cruise ship anchorage.
This island is the locus of the major carpet snake myth of the area. There is a painting of the snake in Cape Melville and a major traditional residential site. The Cape was also the scene of several wrecks and mass drownings of lugger crews in the 1890s and there is a monument on the 300 m high mountain on the cape. It is around 67 hectares or 0.67 square km in size.
References
Pipon Island Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA