Goold Island National Park, National park in Queensland, Australia.

Goold Island National Park protects an 8.3 square kilometre island 17 kilometres off the coast from Cardwell in Rockingham Bay, near the northern tip of Hinchinbrook Island. Most of it is open eucalypt forest, with rainforest in the gullies and creeks that hold water for part of the year. Sand beaches ring the island.

For thousands of years the island was occupied and used by generations of Bandjin ancestors, who left stone fish traps and shell middens on and around it. In 1818 Phillip Parker King entered Rockingham Bay and recorded canoes, huts and earth ovens at Goold Island. In December 2005 the Bandjin included the island in Australia's and Queensland's first accredited Traditional Use of Marine Resource Agreement.

The Bandjin people's ancestors used Goold Island and its surrounding seas for thousands of years, leaving stone fish traps and shell middens on and around the island. In December 2005 the island was included in Australia's and Queensland's first accredited Traditional Use of Marine Resource Agreement, and the Girringun Aboriginal Corporation monitors seagrasses, turtles and dugongs nearby.

You need a camping permit and must bring your own water, as supplies are not available on site. Getting there involves taking ferries, private boats, charter services, or paddling sea kayaks from the mainland.

In 1818 Phillip Parker King anchored off Goold Island and saw seven bark canoes hauled above the tide line; the next morning six Bandjin men came aboard, trading baskets and turtle pegs for fishing hooks and lines. Crew member Cunningham also recorded earth ovens near a freshwater stream at the north-east end of the beach.