Bushy Island is a vegetated coral cay in Queensland, Australia in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Queensland, Australia.

[1] The coral species Acropora bushyensis, one of many species in the genus Acropora, is most heavily concentrated in Bushy Island lagoon, existing only rarely elsewhere in the eastern portion of the Great Barrier Reef and not at all in the western portion.

[3] A major component of the mobile sands of Bushy Island is Foraminifera, a type of amoeboid protist.

[4] Bushy Island is located inside the zero isobase on an elevated reef flat, onto which the cay often erodes.

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