Chapman Island (Queensland)

Chapman Island
Chapman Island; Queensland
	Chapman Island
Coordinates	12°53′10″S143°36′14″E / 12.88611°S 143.60389°E Coordinates: 12°53′10″S143°36′14″E / 12.88611°S 143.60389°E
LGA(s)	Cook Shire Council
State electorate(s)	Cook
Federal Division(s)	Leichhardt

Last updated March 19, 2019

Chapman Island is an island in the Aboriginal Shire of Lockhart River, Queensland, Australia.^[1]

The Aboriginal Shire of Lockhart River is a local government area in Far North Queensland, Australia.

Queensland is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia. Situated in the north-east of the country, it is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean. To its north is the Torres Strait, with Papua New Guinea located less than 200 km across it from the mainland. The state is the world's sixth-largest sub-national entity, with an area of 1,852,642 square kilometres (715,309 sq mi).

Geography

Chapman Island is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park West of Cape Melville, Queensland and East of Coen between the second three mile opening and Providential Channel of the Barrier Reef about 30 km South East of Lockhart River.

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park protects a large part of Australia's Great Barrier Reef from damaging activities. It is a vast multiple-use Marine Park which supports a wide range of uses, including commercial marine tourism, fishing, ports and shipping, recreation, scientific research and Indigenous traditional use. Fishing and the removal of artefacts or wildlife is strictly regulated, and commercial shipping traffic must stick to certain specific defined shipping routes that avoid the most sensitive areas of the park. The Great Barrier Reef is the largest and best known coral reef ecosystem in the world. Its reefs, almost 3000 in total, represent about 10 per cent of all the coral reef areas in the world. It supports an amazing variety of biodiversity, providing a home to thousands of coral and other invertebrate species, bony fish, sharks, rays, marine mammals, marine turtles, sea snakes, as well as algae and other marine plants.

Cape Melville is a headland on the eastern coast of the Cape York Peninsula in Australia. To its west lies Princess Charlotte Bay. It is part of the Cape Melville National Park.

Coen, Queensland Town in Queensland, Australia

Coen is a town and locality in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. The town of Coen is inland on the Peninsula Developmental Road, the main road on the Cape York Peninsula in far northern Queensland. In the 2011 census, Coen had a population of 416 people.

The island is 10 km North East of Old Lochart River and 5 km South East of Cape Direction.

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References

↑ "Chapman Island - island in Aboriginal Shire of Lockhart River (entry 6865)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government . Retrieved 21 July 2017.

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[1] "Chapman Island - island in Aboriginal Shire of Lockhart River (entry 6865)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government . Retrieved 21 July 2017.