Low Isles is an offshore locality of the Shire of Douglas in Queensland, Australia, made up of two islands, Low Island and the larger Woody Island, separated by the Low Islands Reef in the Coral Sea. It lies east of Rocky Point, about 14.5 kilometers northeast of Port Douglas on the mainland, covers about two square kilometers, and recorded no resident population in the 2021 census; the area has a tropical monsoon climate with mean annual rainfall of 2,100.7 millimeters. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Protected StatusNational Park or Reserve 1 Protected StatusUNESCO World Heritage Site 1 Protected StatusLocally or Regionally Protected 1 Connections
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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to discipline Geomorphology via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
Source Wikidata: Low Isles, Queensland
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1. UNEP-WCMC and IUCN: Protected areas at the coordinates of Low Isles, Queensland, World Database on Protected Areas
UNEP-WCMC and IUCNname_eng and desig_eng
"name_eng": "Eastern Kuku Yalanji", "desig_eng": "Indigenous Protected Area"
name_eng and desig_eng, Marine Park
"name_eng": "Great Barrier Reef", "desig_eng": "Marine Park"
name_eng and desig_eng, World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
"name_eng": "Great Barrier Reef", "desig_eng": "World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)"
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Low Isles is an offshore locality in the Shire of Douglas, Queensland, Australia.
Wikidata: Low Isles, Queensland
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