Quail Island (Northern Territory)

The Australian island Quail Iceland ( English for " quail island " ) located 26 miles from Port Darwin removed in Beagle Gulf, an inlet of the Timor Sea. Quail Iceland was first mentioned in the news, as the SS Brisbane, a 85.8 meter long passenger, freight and mail boat, which had been by A. & J. Inglis in Point House, Glasgow, built, on a trip from Hong Kong to Darwin at the nearby Fish Reef ran aground.

Quail Quail Iceland Iceland belongs to the Group. The other two islands of the archipelago are bare sand Iceland in the southwest of Iceland and Quail Djadjalbit Iceland to the south.

The islands are known as the breeding ground for flatback turtles.

Military training ground

The Quail Iceland Air Weapons Range was used from 1945 to 1979 as a training ground for the armed forces. As a result, dangerous munitions remnants were still partially scattered all over the island. A lasting three years, clean-up began in 2011 to remove dangers of unexploded ordnance. The island was closed during the cleanup for visitors such as tourists and anglers.