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Western Australia

Gun Island

Gun Island is one of the larger islands in the of the , in the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia. It is nominally at, about 4 km north and east of Half Moon Reef and is a flat limestone outcrop of about 800 by 420 metres in size.
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Photo: Hesperian, Public domain.
  • Type: Islet
  • Description: island in Western Australia
  • Also known as: “Gun Island, Houtman Abrolhos”, “Gun Island, Paelsart Group”, and “Gun Islet”

Gun Island

Latitude
-28.8866° or 28° 53′ 12″ south
Longitude
113.85978° or 113° 51′ 35″ east
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
Open location code
5P3M4V75+9W
Open­Street­Map ID
way 460342110
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­islet
Geo­Names ID
2070265
Wiki­data ID
Q5618325
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Turkish—“Gun Island” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Gun Island (pulo sa Awstralya)”
  • Cebuano: “Gun Island”
  • Dutch: “Gun Island”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جون”
  • French: “Gun Island”
  • German: “Gun Island”
  • Italian: “Gun Island”
  • Swedish: “Gun Island”
  • Turkish: “Gun Adası”
  • Turkish: “Gun 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 “Gun Island”. Photo: Hesperian, Public domain.