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Did you know that Australia has 8,222 islands within its maritime borders? That's a lot of islands to explore!

Take a look at this gallery to discover some of the most stunning islands and what each individual paradise has to offer.

▲Kangaroo Island has an abundance of wildlife including sea lions, koalas, and rare birds. And, yes, there are kangaroos on Kangaroo Island! It's Australia's third largest island after Tasmania and Melville Island.

▲This island is renowned for its amazing Aboriginal rock art sites, arts and crafts, and outstanding sport-fishing including sailfish, marlin, tuna, Spanish mackerel, giant trevally, queenfish, and coral trout.

▲Baz Luhrmann filmed part of his 2008 film 'Australia' on Bathurst Island. The movie stars Nicole Kidman as an English aristocrat and Hugh Jackman as a local Australian.

▲This is the largest sand island in the world. Fraser Island also is the only place in the world to still have purebred dingoes.

▲Flinders Island is known for being wild and rugged. It is the perfect place to get away from the stresses of the modern world.

▲King Island is a golfer's paradise. It's home to the Ocean Dunes and Cape Wickham golf courses, which are two of the top five courses in all of Australia.

▲Mornington Island is located in the Gulf of Carpentaria. It has a unique natural environment, and the Lardil people have lived here for thousands of years.

▲This island has an abundance of white-sand beaches and secluded coves. Rottnest is also famous for its friendly quokka marsupials!

▲Known affectionately by locals as Maggie Island, this is a rocky coastal island just offshore of Townsville. It's a beautiful place to explore.

▲Fitzroy Island is one of the most pristine islands on the Great Barrier Reef. The island is found in National Island Park.

▲Home of the little penguins! At Summerland Beach, spectators regularly gather at sunset to watch them come ashore in groups.

▲The tiny island in the Tasman Sea is characterized by sandy beaches, subtropical forests, and clear waters. It's ideal for scuba diving.

▲Cockatoo Island is not quite as tropical as Lord Howe Island, but culturally it's just as important. This island is a UNESCO World Heritage Site steeped in rich history.

▲Great Keppel Island is a sanctuary full of beauty. There are 17 white sandy beaches with some of the highest cover of hard coral reefs on the Great Barrier Reef.

▲Lady Musgrave Island offers walking trails, white sandy beaches, fantastic snorkeling, and glass-bottom boat tours.

▲Moreton Island is just south of Fraser Island and is a great place to spot dolphins and explore submerged shipwrecks.

▲Green Island is a fancy hideaway for people who like the luxurious side of life. It is a tropical paradise tucked away in the heart of the Great Barrier Reef.

▲Bruny Island is a haven for many rare and endangered plants and animals, including 12 species of birds that occur nowhere else in the world.

▲Hamilton is one of the most popular islands in the Whitsundays. It is car-free, covered in bush, and surrounded by coral reefs.

▲Orpheus is a hidden gem of a tropical paradise. It boasts 30 beaches and 1,400 hectares of bush to explore.

▲Privately owned, Satellite Island features an exclusive boat shack where you can revel in the solitude of this sea-fringed wilderness.

▲Fewer than 2,000 residents live here, and you must give right of way to the local cows. There are 40 unique plant species and 20 species of bird on the island.

▲Surrounded by coral reefs, the ocean in this area teems with life, from playful sea lions and huge Samson fish to migrating humpback whales.

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Christmas Island is famous for its annual spring/summer red crab migration. Over 50 million crabs pour out of the rain forest and spawn in the sea.

▲Home to the famous Heron Bommie, it was named by Jacques Cousteau as one of his top 10 dive sites in the world.

▲Secluded bays, stunning cliffs, and abundant rain forests are among the many attractions on this pristine Tasmanian island.

▲Aboriginal rock art occurs in many sites on the island, with significant galleries of both Gwion Gwion (“Bradshaw art”) and Wandjina art in the coastal caves.

▲The biggest island of them all, Tasmania is home to 520,000 people, ancient rain forests, the city of Hobart, and Cradle Mountain.

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Melville Island, known in the Tiwi language as Yermalner, is an island in the eastern Timor Sea. Melville and Bathurst Islands are known as the Tiwi Islands.