Booby Island is an island West of Muttee Heads at the tip of Cape York Peninsula within the Endeavour Strait, Queensland, Australia. This island in the Torres Strait, south of Thursday Island and Prince of Wales Island. In the 19th century such a high number of ship were lost in the area, that provisions were stored on Booby Island for shipwrecked sailors. In 1890 a lighthouse eventually took up service on the island, an 18 metres (59 ft) tall timber framed iron clad conical tower with a focal plane at 37 m. The light characteristic is one flash every 7.5 seconds. The tower is painted white with a red lantern room.