Raine Island
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Raine Island is an island in the Shire of Cook in Queensland, Australia. It is 32 hectares (79 acres) in total area situated on the outer edges of the Great Barrier Reef off northeastern Australia. It lies approximately 620 km (390 mi) north-northwest of Cairns, about 120 kilometres (75 mi) east-northeast of Cape Grenville on the Cape York Peninsula.
Raine Island is the site of the oldest European structure in tropical Australia, a stone beacon built in 1844, and harbours the world's largest remaining population of green turtles (Chelonia mydas). An important environmental icon, the island is totally protected from public access.
The island was named in 1924 by the Admiralty Hydrographer, after Captain Thomas Raine (1793–1860), the English captain of the Surrey who first reported the island. Raine later became one of the directors of the Bank of New South Wales and a prominent pastoralist in the Bathurst district.
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