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Snapper Island is an island at the mouth of the Daintree River in Queensland, Australia, some 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of Port Douglas. It is administered by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service as the Snapper Island National Park and Marine Park. Snapper Island is a popular tourism and sea kayaking destination. It is around 66 hectares or 0.66 square km in size.[2]

Snapper Island

Geography
Location	Northern Australia
Coordinates	16.297°S 145.499°E / -16.297; 145.499
Area	0.66 km2 (0.25 sq mi)
Highest elevation	99 m (325 ft)[1]
Administration
Australia
State	Queensland

Indigenous culture

The island is part of the traditional sea country of the Kuku Yalanji Aboriginal people. The Kuku Yalanji people hunt and fish around the island and traditionally manage the island's culture

Other history

In the early 1900s, Jerry Doyle operated a lime kiln on the island, fired by wood from the Daintree, ferried over on a vessel called the "Nellie". Beche-de-mer (sea cucumbers) processing (boiling) may also have been undertaken here. There is evidence of remains of an early Chinese market garden on the island, the watercourse stonework of which is still visible today.

This island was a stopover by George Elphinstone Dalrymple before he discovered the Daintee River. (https://web.archive.org/web/20060429214616/http://www.daintreecoast.com/daintree.htm)

Flora and Fauna

The island is home to a variety of vegetation communities such as a small mangrove community, closed sclerophyll forest, closed vine forest and some coastal vegetation. It is inhabited by many sea creatures and birds including the pied imperial-pigeons who come here during the summer season.[3]

References

• ^ State of Queensland Environmental Protection Agency (2003). Snapper Island National Park and Marine Park^{[permanent dead link]}. Retrieved September 14, 2005.

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[de] Snapper Island (Queensland)

Snapper-Island ist eine Insel im Nordosten des australischen Bundesstaates Queensland, ca. 70 km südlich von Cooktown und ca. 21 km nördlich von Mossman vor der Mündung des Daintree River.[1] Die Insel ist Teil des Hope-Islands-Nationalparks, der auch die beiden ca. 50 km nördlich von Snapper Island gelegenen Hope Islands, zwei kleine Koralleninseln, umfasst.

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- [en] Snapper Island (Queensland)

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[it] Snapper Island

Snapper Island è un'isola situata nel mar dei Coralli nella regione di Cairns nel Queensland (Australia). Si trova 20 km a nord della città di Port Douglas.

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