Albany Island (Queensland)

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Albany Island is an island at the very tip of Cape York Peninsula in the Adolphus Channel and part of the Manar Group of islands Queensland, Australia, in the Cape York Peninsula about 20 km East of Bamaga

This island is part of the Torres Strait Islands

[edit] Shipwrecks

• Lightning. Schooner. Supposed lost on Albany Island, Torres Strait, mid-January 1856. A popular theory claims that the crew of thirty-one landed near Newcastle Bay and were killed ‘by savages’; a few survivors were kept as slaves. When the schooner Robert & Betsy called briefly at Newcastle Bay, one of the captives managed to escape and reach her, while a few months later the ship Washington rescued five more

[edit] Aerial photos & maps

Coordinates: -10.730° 142.605°

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