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]
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Notes and references
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edit- ^ 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
edit13°22′05″S 143°34′37″E / 13.368°S 143.577°E