The island of New Guinea lies directly north of Australia.
The Solomom Islands.
The Cocos Keeling Islands are one of Austtralia's external territories. They are located about 2940 km northwest of Perth, Western Australia. From the islands to Sydney, NSW on the eastern coast is a distance of 5990 km.
The islands off the northwest coast of Africa are called The Canary Islands.
Indonesia
Yes, Indonesia is basically northwest of Australia.
Christmas Island lies northwest of Australia. it is one of Australia's external territories.
The Hawaiian islands move toward the northwest direction because the plate that the islands are on is moves in that direction.
The Faroe Islands.
Australia has 8,222 islands.
The largest group of islands directly to Australia's north is Indonesia.
Australia
there are a lot of islands like:Andaman Islands (India)Ashmore and Cartier Islands (Australia)Christmas Island (Australia)Cockatoo Island (Australia)Cocos (Keeling) Islands(Australia)Dirk Hartog Island (Australia)Garden Island(Australia)Houtman Abrolhos (Australia)Jaffna Islands (Sri Lanka)Kangaroo Island (Australia)King Island (Australia)Koolan Island (Australia)Lakshadweep Islands (India)Langkawi Islands (Malaysia you have to have a spacific one!
The Canary Islands are the Spanish islands off the northwest coast of Africa.(They are not named for the bird, but for the dog breed, canarias in Spanish, found there.)