Allen Island
Allen Island, also known as Allens Island or Allen's Island, is one of the South Wellesley Islands, in Queensland's Gulf of Carpentaria. It was named by Matthew Flinders after John Allen, a Derbyshire miner who was a member of the party of naturalists that accompanied the 1801–1803 voyage of HMS Investigator under Flinders.- Island
- …lies at an elevation of 4 metres (13 feet)
- …is also known as “Allen Island, Queensland”
- Description: island in Queensland, Australia
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Latitude
-17.03121° or 17° 1′ 52″ south
Longitude
139.23526° or 139° 14′ 7″ east
Open location code
5QJXX69P+G4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastline
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Allen Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Allen Island (pulo sa Awstralya)”
- Cebuano: “Allen Island”
- Dutch: “Allen Island, Queensland”
- Swedish: “Allen Island, Queensland”
- Swedish: “Allen Island”
- Turkish: “Allen Adası (I)”
- Turkish: “Allen Island”
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