Willis Island

Willis Island is the only permanently inhabited island in the Coral Sea Islands Territory, an external territory of Australia, located beyond the Great Barrier Reef in the Coral Sea. The island is located some 450 kilometres east of Cairns, Queensland. It is the southernmost of the Willis Islets, a group of three islands which with their associated sandy cays stretch in a NNE to SSW line for about 12 kilometres. Willis Island itself is aligned NW to SE and is about 500 metres long by 150 metres wide, 7.7 hectares in area, rising to about 9 metres above sea level. ()