Sweers Island
Sweers Island is an island in the South Wellesley Islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, Australia. Most of the island is Aboriginal Freehold Land, held in trust by the Kaiadilt Aboriginal Land Trust on behalf of the traditional owners.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: J Brew, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Queensland, Australia
- Also known as: “Sweers Island, Queensland” and “Sweers Island, Queensland, Australia”
Sweers Island
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-17.10053° or 17° 6′ 2″ southLongitude
139.61748° or 139° 37′ 3″ eastElevation
8 metres (26 feet)Open location code
5QJXVJX8+QXOpenStreetMap ID
way 161565295OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
2060768Wikidata ID
Q19879693
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Sweers Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Sweers Island”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سويرس”
- Swedish: “Sweers Island”
- Turkish: “Sweers Adası”
- Turkish: “Sweers Island”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sweers Island”. Photo: J Brew, CC BY-SA 2.0.