Night Island is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park west of Cape Melville, Queensland, Australia. It lies east of Coen between the first three-mile opening and the second three-mile opening of the Barrier Reef about 100 km south-east of Lockhart River. It is part of the Islands North of Port Stewart Important Bird Area. The indigenous people of the island were the Kawadji.
Notes and references
Explanatory notes
Notes
- BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Islands North of Port Stewart. Downloaded from "BirdLife International - conserving the world's birds". Archived from the original on 10 July 2007. Retrieved 15 August 2013. on 2011-07-12.
- Tindale 1974, p. 175.
References
- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Kawadji (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.
13°22′05″S 143°34′37″E / 13.368°S 143.577°E / -13.368; 143.577
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