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The island is almost uninhabited, quite rugged and almost completely contained within a section of the Whitsunday Islands National Park. The island has two prominent geographical features on the southern side of Hook Island; the Nara and Macona inlets, two fjord-like recesses that are used as anchorages for the Whitsunday tourist fleet.
The island is accessible by boat from the mainland tourist ports of Airlie Beach and Shute Harbour.It contains many popular destinations for both day visitors and overnight sailors, including the magnificent pure-white sands of Whitehaven Beach and Hill Inlet, the secure anchorage of Cid Harbour, and the sheltered waterway of Gulnare Inlet.
Heimaey, Iceland's second largest island by area, the largest after the main island; [5] main island of the Westman Islands: 13.4 4,347 (2021) Vestmannaeyjabær: Hellisey: 0.1 0 Vestmannaeyjabær: Hergilsey: 0.2 0 Reykhólahreppur: Hjörsey, Iceland's fourth largest island by area, located in Faxaflói bay (West) 5.5 0 Borgarbyggð: Hrappsey: 1 ...
The Whitsunday Islands are 74 continental islands of various sizes off the central coast of Queensland, Australia, 900 kilometres (560 miles) north of Brisbane. [1] The northernmost of the islands are off the coast by the town of Bowen , while the southernmost islands are off the coast by Proserpine .
Marine stingers are found in the waters of the islands between October and May. [2] The region spans from the beaches of Bowen in the north and Laguna Whitsundays in the south. All 74 of the islands are surrounded by the Great Barrier Reef and only eight of them are inhabited. On Whitsunday Island is the six km long Whitehaven Beach. [3]
South Molle Island, part of the Whitsunday Islands, is a resort island in the Whitsunday section of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in Queensland, Australia. The hilly island has numerous bays and inlets accessible by 16 km of walking and cycling tracks, with most protected in the Molle Islands National Park .
Shute Harbour is a coastal locality and harbour in the Whitsunday Region of Queensland, Australia. [2] [3] It has port facilities and transport options for people seeking to access the Whitsunday Islands and holiday destinations. [4] In the 2021 census, Shute Harbour had a population of 113 people. [1]
The Arctic Circle runs through the island, which attracts many of the island's visitors, as it is the only accessible location in Iceland that far north. However, due to long-term oscillations in the Earth's axis, the Arctic Circle is shifting northward by about 14.5 metres (48 ft) per year (varying substantially from year to year due to the ...