Night Island (Queensland)

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.[1] The indigenous people of the island were the Kawadji.[2]

The island is an important breeding site for Pied Imperial-pigeons

Notes and references

Explanatory notes

Notes

1. BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Islands North of Port Stewart. Downloaded from "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 10 July 2007. Retrieved 15 August 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) on 2011-07-12.
2. 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)