Booby Island (Queensland)

Booby Island is located 45 km (28 mi) northwest of Muttee Heads at the tip of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, Australia.

In the 19th century, such a high number of ships were lost in the area that provisions were stored on the island for shipwrecked sailors.

[2] Wrecks include:[3] In 1890 a lighthouse eventually took up service on the island, an 18 metres (59 ft) tall timber framed iron clad conical tower with a focal plane at 37 m. The light characteristic is one flash every 7.5 seconds.

The recollections of lighthouse keepers [5] and their families in newspaper articles [6] and books never fail to mention the painted caves, and some of their names also appear amongst the graffiti.

[7] The Indigenous rock art and graffiti was photographed by a Queensland Museum team in the 1980s and 1990s, and subsequent studies have shown that there are marks left by: