Booby Island, Torres Strait

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Souvenir of visit of the Federal Parliamentary Party to NT (May 1912)

Booby Island is an island West of Muttee Heads at the tip of Cape York Peninsula within the Endeavour Strait Queensland, Australia.

This island in the Torres Strait and South of Thursday Island.

This island is one of the Torres Strait Islands and South of Prince of Wales Island

Shipwrecks

Delfshaven. Barque, 656 tons. Newcastle to Java,

struck a sunken reef near Booby Island, 24 July 1862. As she was undermanned, the boats were launched with difficulty after big seas had driven her over the rocks into calm water. Natives and adverse currents prevented them reaching safety on the Australian coast before one boat was abandoned and a course set for Timor

Booby Island lighthouse

Kanahooka Iron steamship, 386 tons. Built 1883.

Foundered in a heavy gale south of Booby Island, Queensland, 19 January 1894. She was overloaded with guano from Rocky Islet in the Gulf of Carpentaria; struck by heavy seas, she rolled over, giving the crew only a short time to launch boats and escape

Marina Barque.

Lost in Torres Strait, from Sydney to Singapore, 28 May 1866. Crew landed on Booby Island and a ship took them on to Singapore

Morning Star. Brig or ship, 140 tons. Built and registered at Calcutta. Captain Robert Smart. From Sydney to Batavia and Bengal, probably lost in Torres Strait, late July 1814. Some survivors were rescued from Booby Island by the ship Eliza, while the master and nine others reached Timor in her long boat. Approximately twenty lives were lost

Pacific. Schooner. Foundered off Booby Island, Queensland, 6 July 1935

Shamrock. Schooner. Involved in rescue of survivors from two ships, on Booby Island (Hydrabad and Coringa Packet)

Reference. [Torres Strait shipwrecks]

Aerial photos & maps

Coordinates: [-10.604° 141.911°]

[Maps and aerial photos]
*Street map from [Street Directory], [MSN Maps] and [Multimap].
*Satellite image from [Google Maps], [WikiMapia] and [Terraserver].

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