Rugged yet attractive, the remote islands of Flinders Group National Park (CYPAL) share their geology with the spectacular Cape Melville on the mainland, and contain some of Australia's most significant Aboriginal cultural sites.

Flinders Group National Park (CYPAL) is owned by the Cape Melville, Flinders & Howick Islands Aboriginal Corporation and jointly managed with the Queensland Government in accordance with an Indigenous Management Agreement and other land management arrangements.

The Flinders Group National Park (CYPAL) comprises seven islands—Flinders (Wurriima), Stanley (Yindayin), Blackwood, Maclear, Denham, King and Clack (Ngurromo) islands. These attractive islands feature rocky shores, rugged sandstone cliffs, hills, escarpments and sand dunes. Access to Clack Island (Ngurromo) is prohibited to protect cultural resources.

The islands' slopes are covered in woodlands, mixed vine thickets, open heath and grasslands. Salt flats and mangrove forests occur in intertidal areas. Fringing reefs and highly diverse seagrass meadows surround the islands. The island group supports a variety of land and seabirds.

The Aboriginal Traditional Owners of the Flinders Group National Park (CYPAL), Howick Group National Park (CYPAL) and Cape Melville National Park (CYPAL) collectively identify as the Cape Melville and Flinders Island People. The cultural landscape of the island group, which has great meaning for the Traditional Owners, contains many important Aboriginal heritage sites reflecting their long occupation, in particular, rock imagery (rock art) sites associated with early European contact. The islands also have associations with early European surveyors and tangible links to World War II.