Bellevue Islands

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The Bellevue Islands are a small group of islands belonging to Australia in the archipelago of the Torres Strait Islands. They are ( Torres Strait ) between the northern tip of Australia and Papua New Guinea approximately in the middle of the ocean passage.

The group consists of about a dozen islands, of which however only Mabuiag is inhabited. At the Bellevue Islands include, inter alia, following islands:

The area covers - including the maritime areas between the islands - approximately an area of ​​30 square kilometers.

Administratively, the island group belongs to the Western Islands, an island region in the municipality of Torres Shire of Queensland.

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