Booby Island (Queensland)

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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, south of Thursday Island and Prince of Wales Island.

[edit] 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

• 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, wrecked 1814 somewhere near Booby Island.

• 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

[edit] Aerial photos & maps

• Booby Island (Queensland) is at coordinates 10°36′14″S 141°54′40″E / -10.604, 141.911 (Booby Island (Queensland))Coordinates: 10°36′14″S 141°54′40″E / -10.604, 141.911 (Booby Island (Queensland))