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Cholmondeley Islet

islet in Australia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ5104378 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cholmondeley Islet ( CHUM-lee) is a small island in the Boydong cays Shelburne Bay in far north Queensland, Australia about 105 km north of Cape Grenville, Cape York Peninsula in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Queensland, Australia.

It is a part of the East Islands group, about 30 km northeast of Captain Billy Landing.

Editorial summary

“Cholmondeley Islet” enters the record as islet in Australia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Cholmondeley, Islet and islet can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 55-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Cholmondeley, Islet and islet.
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Why this record matters

“Cholmondeley Islet” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Cholmondeley, Islet and islet provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5104378. Authority coordinates are -11.374, 143.058. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cholmondeley Islet” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.