Dunk Island

Dunk Island is a 1,200-hectare tropical island in the Family Islands National Park, about 4 kilometres off Mission Beach in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland. Part of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, it features rainforest-covered hills, sandy beaches and fringing reefs. Formerly home to a resort destroyed by Cyclone Yasi in 2011, it is now managed as a national park offering day visits and camping, with walking tracks, beaches and snorkelling.

Visitors reach Dunk Island by water taxi, ferry or private boat from Mission Beach. The island offers sandy beaches such as Muggy Muggy Beach and Coconut Beach, rainforest walking tracks including the Mount Kootaloo circuit, and fringing reef for snorkelling. Facilities are basic with a national park camping area, picnic tables and toilets. There is no operating resort or shops, so visitors explore beaches, forest trails and lookouts in a natural, undeveloped setting.

Traditionally known as Coonanglebah to the Bandjin and Djiru peoples. Author Edmund James Banfield lived on the island from 1897 to 1923 and documented its natural history in 'The Confessions of a Beachcomber'. A resort operated from the 1930s and was redeveloped in later decades until Cyclone Yasi severely damaged the island and resort in February 2011, after which the island has been managed primarily as national park.

The island holds cultural significance for the Bandjin and Djiru Aboriginal peoples as part of the Family Islands sea country. It is within the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area and Family Islands National Park, valued for its natural and cultural heritage.