Struck Island is an island in Alexandra Bay about 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of the mouth of the Daintree River in Queensland, Australia, some 40 kilometres (25 mi) north of Port Douglas. It is administered by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service. It's very little in size. It's just 1 hectares or 0.01 square km in size.
Struck Island is in the Daintree National Park about a kilometre from Thornton Beach.
Read more about Struck Island: Aboriginal Culture
Famous quotes containing the words struck and/or island:
“In general, one may pronounce kissing dangerous. A spark of fire has often been struck out of the collision of lips, that has blown up the whole magazine of virtue.”
—Anonymous, U.S. women’s magazine contributor. Weekly Visitor or Ladies Miscellany, p. 203 (April 1803)
“That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their
mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)