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Whitsunday Islands
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| Location | Queensland, Australia |
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The Whitsunday Islands are a collective of continental islands of various sizes off the coast of Queensland, Australia, situated between Townsville and Mackay and some 900km north of Brisbane.
Listed below are the islands of the Greater Whitsundays, divided by group locality. Named rocks and islets can be found listed within the entry for the nearest island to that feature:
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- Bird Island
- Black Island
- Border Island
- Cid Island
- Cowrie Island
- Deloraine Island
- Dent Island
- Dumbell Island
- Dungarra Island
- Esk Island
- Fitzalan Island
- Hamilton Island
- Harold Island
- Haslewood Island
- Hayman Island
- Henning Island
- Hook Island
- Ireby Island
- Langford Island
- Long Island
- Lupton Island
- Nicolson Island
- Perseverance Island
- Plum Pudding Island
- Teague Island
- Titan Island
- Whitsunday Island
- Wirrainbela Island
- Workington Island
The Lindeman Islands are a group of islands off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The Lindeman Group of islands is located at . Situated within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park the Lindeman Islands are part of the greater Whitsunday Islands.
The islands in the Lindeman Group include:
- Baynham Island
- Cornston Island
- Gaibirra Island
- Triangle Island
- Keyser Island
- Lindeman Island
- Little Lindeman Island
- Maher Island
- Mansell Island
- Pentecost Island
- Seaforth Island
- Shaw Island, Queensland|Shaw Island
- Thomas Island
- Volskow Island
- Daydream Island (formerly West Molle Island)
- Denman Island
- Goat Island
- Mid Molle Island
- North Molle Island
- Planton Island
- South Molle Island
- Armit Island
- Double Cone Island
- Eshelby Island
- Gloucester Island
- Grassy Island
- Gumbrell Island
- Olden Island
- Rattray Island
- Saddleback Island
The Whitsundays observe Australian Eastern Standard Time. Like New South Wales, but unlike the rest of Queensland, tourist resorts there observe daylight saving time in summer. This is for the benefit of tourists from New South Wales.[1] The zoneinfo database of time zones names this zone "Australia/Lindeman" and describes it as "Queensland - Holiday Islands".
- ^ Dual time zone or 'Double Standard' Time?. Retrieved on 2007-11-08. “Queensland’s Whitsunday tourist resorts use daylight saving in line with southern states, ... These minor sub-time zones have worked, or appear to work, due to their isolated geographic and economic environments. The Whitsunday tourist resorts are one-industry, island economies”
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