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The Wellesley Islands, also known as the North Wellesley Islands, is a group of islands off the coast of Far North Queensland, Australia, in the Gulf of Carpentaria. It is a locality within the Shire of Mornington local government area. [2] [3] The traditional owners of the islands are the Lardil people.
Mornington Island, also known as Kunhanhaa, is an island in the Gulf of Carpentaria in the Shire of Mornington, Queensland, Australia. It is the northernmost and, at 1,018 km 2 (393 sq mi), [1] the largest of 22 islands that form the Wellesley Islands group. The largest town, Gununa, is in the south-western part of the island.
The Shire of Mornington is a local government area in northwestern Queensland, Australia.The shire covers the Wellesley Islands, which includes Mornington Island; the South Wellesley Islands; Bountiful Islands; and West Wellesley / Forsyth Islands groups in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Location map of the South Wellesley Islands. The South Wellesley Islands is an island group and locality in the Gulf of Carpentaria within the Shire of Mornington, Queensland, Australia. The group is separate from the Wellesley Islands. Bentinck Island is the only one known to have been inhabited in the past. In the 2021 census, South Wellesley ...
Aerial view of the southern end of Sweers Island, 2009 Wellesley Islands. Sweers Island is an island in the South Wellesley Islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, Australia. Most of the island is Aboriginal Freehold Land, held in trust by the Kaiadilt Aboriginal Land Trust (KALT) on behalf of the traditional owners.
The West Wellesley Islands, also referred to as the Forsyth Islands, [2] is an island group and locality in the Gulf of Carpentaria within the Shire of Mornington, Queensland, Australia. [3] The group lies to the south-west of the Wellesley Islands , closer to mainland Australia . [ 2 ]
Bentinck Island is one of the South Wellesley Islands, in Queensland's Gulf of Carpentaria. The traditional home of the Kaiadilt people, the island was the site of a brutal massacre in 1918 known as the McKenzie massacre, in which many Indigenous inhabitants died.
Location map of the South Wellesley Islands Allen Island , also known as Allens Island or Allen's Island , [ 1 ] is one of the South Wellesley Islands , in Queensland 's Gulf of Carpentaria . It was named by Matthew Flinders after John Allen , a Derbyshire miner who was a member of the party of naturalists that accompanied the 1801–1803 ...