It includes all gazetted ports, harbours, havens, roadsteads and marinas.
[1] Dubious names have been checked against the online 2004 data,[2] and in all cases confirmed correct.
Strictly speaking, Australian place names are gazetted in capital letters only; the names in this list have been converted to mixed case in accordance with normal capitalisation conventions.
Locations are as gazetted; obviously some islands may extend over large areas.
The list also contains some entries for places that are widely recognised as ports or harbours, yet have not been gazetted as such.