Mount Adolphus Island

Geography

Mount Adolphus Island is 4.4 km long, and 2.1 km wide at its widest point. It measures 6.74 km2 in area. It is located 10.1 km from the Australian mainland. The island's highest elevation is the flat-topped Mount Adolphus () at the height of 178 m above mean sea level.

Coastal features on Mount Adolphus Island include (clockwise from north):

• Lacey Island ()
• Little Adolphus Island ()
• Salter Island ()
• Nicklin Islet ()
• North East Bluff ()
• Morilug Islet, also known as Tiakan Islet ()
• Akone Islet ()
• Pinnacle Peak ()
• Cambridge Point ()
• Dickey Point ()
• Blackwood Bay ()

History

Djagaraga (also known as Yadhaigana, Dyagaraga and Yagulleone) is of the languages from the tip of Cape York. The language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Northern Peninsula Area Regional Council. Traditionally the language was spoken on Eastern Cape York particularly the localities of Albany Island and Mount Adolphus Island.

Shipwrecks

• Aliquis, a ship captained by Gill and sailed from Port Jackson to Calcutta, was lost near Mount Adolphus Island, Torres Strait, in May 1839. There were no deaths. The crew were picked up by the ship Argyle, also bound Sydney to India.
• , an iron steamship of that was built at Dumbarton, Scotland in 1881. Owned by the British India Steam Navigation Company and captained by Alfred Sanders, the ship was bound from Brisbane to London on 6 February 1890. It foundered when she struck a needle of uncharted coral in Mount Adolphus Channel, on 28 February 1890. 134 people died, and there were 158 survivors. A submerged rock had ripped through six water-tight compartments of the hull, from the bows to the engine room. Stokers were killed instantly as water rushed onto the boilers, causing them to explode. Lower-deck portholes burst under the water pressure, and the sea flooded in, swamping passengers asleep in their bunks. For half a minute the ship hung at a 45-degree angle, then she slid slowly beneath the surface. Within less than five minutes of striking the rock she was gone.

References

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3. {{cite QPN. 18712. Lacey Island. island
4. {{cite QPN. 19498. Little Adolphus Island. island
5. {{cite QPN. 29496. Salter Island. island
6. {{cite QPN. 24217. Nicklin Islet. island
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8. {{cite QPN. 44498. North East Bluff. mountain in Torres Shire
9. {{cite QPN. 22829. Morilug Islet. island
10. {{cite QPN. 194. Akone Islet. island
11. {{cite QPN. 44497. Pinnacle Peak. mountain in Torres Shire
12. {{cite QPN. 5819. Cambridge Point. mountain in Torres Shire
13. {{cite QPN. 44496. Dickey Point. mountain in Torres Shire
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