Burketown
Burketown is an isolated outback town and coastal locality in the Shire of Burke, Queensland, Australia. It is located 898 kilometres or 558 miles west of Cairns and 227 kilometres or 141 miles west of Normanton on the Albert River and Savannah Way in the area known as the Gulf Savannah.- Town with about 240 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (20 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code BUC
- Description: town in Queensland, Australia
- Also known as“Burketown, Queensland”“Burketown, Queensland, Australia”
- Category: locality
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Latitude
-17.74006° or 17° 44′ 24″ south
Longitude
139.54654° or 139° 32′ 48″ east
UN/LOCODE
AU BUC
Open location code
5QJX7G5W+XJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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