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Great Palm Island, also known as Palm Island, or by the Aboriginal name Bwgcolman;〔Bindloss, Joseph (2002) page 330〕 is a tropical island with a resident community of about 2,000 people. The island has an area of . The official area figure of 70.9 km² refers to Aboriginal Shire of Palm Island and includes nine smaller islands. It is in Queensland, Australia, off the east coast of northern Queensland, situated northwest of Townsville, and north of the Tropic of Capricorn. The Australia Post lists the local post office as Palm Island, QLD. It is the main island of the Greater Palm group, and consists of small bays, sandy beaches and steep forested mountains rising to a peak of .〔name="The Place">''Palm Island - The Place'', Reconciliation and Social Justice Library (1996) (Auslii website ). Retrieved 23 January 2007.〕 The ocean surrounding the island is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park where extraction and fishing are regulated. == Human habitation == (詳細はEuropean settlement of Australia.〔 〕 The local government is the Palm Island Aboriginal Shire Council, which has jurisdiction over ten of the islands in the Greater Palm group.〔name = "LG"> 〕 While the Australia Post lists the local post office as Palm Island, QLD, there is no formal name for the settled areas of the island.〔 〕 Other names include or have included the Mission, Palm Island settlement, Palm Island Aborigines settlement, and Palm Island Community. There are three settled areas. One settled area is at the southeast end of the airport. To the north on the west coast is a settled area with a pier and the government center—some locals call this the Mission.〔 Beyond a mountain to the north is a third settled area by Coolgaree Bay. The islands in the area were named the "Palm Isles" by explorer James Cook in 1770 as he sailed up the eastern coast of Australia on his first voyage.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 Captain James Cook Biography )〕 It is estimated that the population of the island at the time of Cook's visit was about 200 Manbarra people.〔name = "AATA268"> 〕〔name = "Wilson Case study">Wilson, Paul (1985) pages 49-50〕 The name "Great Palm Island" for the island goes back at least as far as 1866.〔 〕 Beginning in 1918 the island was used by the Queensland Government as a settlement for Aborigines.〔name = "Cathy Freeman"> 〕 As an end result, the island population is now a mix of Manbarra and other Aboriginal peoples, with few jobs and a shortage of housing.〔name="Background briefing Part 1"/> 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Great Palm Island」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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