North West Island is a coral cay in the southern Great Barrier Reef, located 75 kilometres northeast of Gladstone, Queensland.

[citation needed] The environmental importance of North West Island was recognised when it was included as part of Capricornia Cays National Park in 1980.

Loving hands had erected a neat white palisading around the grave, which had for headstone a wooden slab with name and age of the dead baby.

[4] In 1926 Today there is but one evidence of that early settlement is a lonely grave, said to be that of a girl of 17 years of age, whose name, to be read on a tiny wooden cross, was L.L.

[5]In 1928 Beneath the gnarled and twisted branches of an aged Tournefortia tree, and surrounded by a neat paling fence, there stands on North-west Island a lonely grave.

Maybe In this lonely plot, canopied by the dense growth so typical of the Barrier Reef islands, lies hidden a stirring story of heroism, or a gripping epic of a battle against over whelming nature.

The rest, a shark carried away as he was wading out on the reef to a dinghy[8]In 1966 North West Island became internationally famous when US newspapers published a story called 'Tarzan Terrie' about a 19 year old typist from Brisbane who moved to the remote North West Island alone in the Great Barrier Reef to study marine life.

"To eat she stalks wild fowls, dives for seafood and grows vegetables in the island's rich soils", the report said.

[11] In mid April 2010, it was suspected that the 2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill had reached North West Island.

[12] Seventy per cent of the total breeding population of wedge-tailed shearwaters on Australia's east coast nest on the island.