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{{Short description|Island in Queensland, Australia; no current name}}
{{other uses|Niggerhead (disambiguation)}}
{{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

'''Nigger Head''' is the name of a small island in the northern part of [[Shelburne Bay]] in far north [[Queensland]], [[Australia]] about 30&nbsp;km north of [[Cape Grenville]], [[Cape York Peninsula]] in the [[Great Barrier Reef Marine Park]] [[Queensland]], [[Australia]].<ref>{{Gazetteer of Australia | name = Nigger Head | id = 30682}}<br>{{url|1=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605021437/http://www.ga.gov.au/bin/gazd01?rec=145413}}</ref> It was named so because it is an isolated coral outcrop; such outcrops were known as [[niggerhead]]s by British sailors.

In August 2017 it was announced that the name Nigger Head would no longer be used by the [[Department of Natural Resources and Mines]] which is responsible for naming places in Queensland. In September 2017 the Queensland government stated that a new name would be chosen for the island, although a new name was never selected and the island remains officially unnamed.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/queensland/racist-place-names-to-be-struck-from-the-record-in-queensland-20170828-p4yvlm.html|title=Racist place names to be struck from the record in Queensland|work=Brisbane Times|date=28 August 2017|access-date=20 September 2017}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Queensland}}
* [[Bird Islands (Queensland)]]
* [[List of islands of Australia]]
* [[Use of nigger in proper names]]

==References==
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[[Category:Islands on the Great Barrier Reef]]
[[Category:Uninhabited islands of Australia]]


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