Farmer Island

Farmer Island
Map
Geography
LocationNorthern Australia
Coordinates12°14′38″S 143°13′34″E / 12.244°S 143.226°E / -12.244; 143.226
Area0.05 km2 (0.019 sq mi)
Administration
StateQueensland

Farmer Island is an island in the Piper Islands National Park in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, Queensland, Australia. It is located in Temple Bay about 100 km northeast of Kutini-Payamu National Park and Lockhart River and 50 km south of Cape Grenville. The island, along with neighbouring Baird, Beesley and Fisher Islands, constitutes the Piper Islands Important Bird Area, so identified by BirdLife International because of its importance as a breeding site for pied imperial pigeons and black noddies.[1] It is around 5 hectares or 0.05 square km in size.[2]

  1. ^ BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Piper Islands. Downloaded from "BirdLife International - conserving the world's birds". Archived from the original on 10 July 2007. Retrieved 20 December 2012. on 19/09/2011.
  2. ^ "Map of Farmer Island, QLD".