Port Essington
Port Essington is an inlet and historic site located on the Cobourg Peninsula in the Garig Gunak Barlu National Park in Australia's Northern Territory. It was the site of an early attempt at British settlement, but now exists only as a remote series of ruins.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Ruin
- …lies at an elevation of 21 metres (69 feet)
- Description: human settlement in Northern Territory, Australia
- Also known as“Port Essington (Historical)”“Victoria Settlement”
Port Essington
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Latitude
-11.36159° or 11° 21′ 42″ south
Longitude
132.15368° or 132° 9′ 13″ east
Open location code
5QWJJ5Q3+9F
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Spanish—“Port Essington” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “埃辛頓港”
- Chinese: “埃辛顿港”
- Chinese: “艾森頓埠”
- Dutch: “Port Essington”
- Finnish: “Port Essington”
- French: “Port Essington”
- German: “Port Essington”
- Indonesian: “Port Essington”
- Japanese: “ポート・エシントン”
- Spanish: “Puerto Essington”
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