Bentinck Island
Bentinck Island is one of the South Wellesley Islands, in Queensland's Gulf of Carpentaria. The traditional home of the Kaiadilt people, the island was the site of a brutal massacre in 1918 known as the McKenzie massacre, in which many Indigenous inhabitants died.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Queensland, Australia
- Also known as: “Bentinck Island, Queensland”
Bentinck Island
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Queensland, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-17.05994° or 17° 3′ 36″ south
Longitude
139.48616° or 139° 29′ 10″ east
Open location code
5QJXWFRP+2F
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastline
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Bentinck Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Bentinck Island”
- French: “Bentinck”
- French: “île Bentinck”
- Swedish: “Bentinck Island, Queensland”
- Swedish: “Bentinck Island”
- Turkish: “Bentinck Adası”
- Turkish: “Bentinck Island”
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