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Christmas Island

Flying Fish Cove

Flying Fish Cove is the capital city and main settlement of . Although it was originally named after the British survey-ship Flying Fish, many maps simply label it "The Settlement".
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  • Type: Village with 1,600 residents
  • Description: capital city and main settlement of Australia’s Christmas Island
  • Also known as: “Kampong”, “Settlement”, and “The Settlement”
  • Postal code: 6798

Places of Interest

Highlights include Christmas Island Airport and Christmas Island District High School.

Aerodrome
Photo: Paullymac, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Christmas Island International Airport is an airport located on , a territory of Australia in the Indian Ocean. The island is located 2,600 km northwest of the Western Australian city of Perth, 500 km south of the Indonesian capital, , and 975 km east-northeast of the . is situated 3½ km southeast of Flying Fish Cove.

School
is a public co-educational early learning, , and high day school located in , a territory of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Silver City and Poon Saan.

Neighborhood
is a within Flying Fish Cove in the Australian overseas territory of . The population is made up of a mixture of various ethnicities such as Chinese, European, and Malay.

Neighborhood
is the second largest village on , an external territory of . Ethnic Chinese make up the majority of inhabitants. In Cantonese, means "halfway up the hill".

Neighborhood
is a village in . The village's population consists mostly of Chinese and European workers. A project that built townhouses in the village was built in 2013 amid concerns about asylum seekers going to Christmas Island.

Flying Fish Cove

Latitude
-10.42133° or 10° 25′ 17″ south
Longitude
105.67441° or 105° 40′ 28″ east
Population
1,600
Elevation
135 metres (443 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CX FFC
Open location code
5PX7HMHF+FQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2120280212
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2078127
Wiki­data ID
Q30980
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Flying Fish Cove” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Arabic: “فلاينغ فيش كوف”
  • Armenian: “Ֆլային Ֆիշ Քոուվ”
  • Asturian: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Azerbaijani: “Flayinq Fiş Kouv”
  • Basque: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Belarusian: “Сэтльмент”
  • Belarusian: “Флаін-Фіш-Коўв”
  • Belarusian: “Флаінг-Фіш-Коўв”
  • Bengali: “ফ্লাইং ফিশ কোভ”
  • Bosnian: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Bulgarian: “Флаинг Фиш Коув”
  • Catalan: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Cebuano: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Chinese: “飛魚灣”
  • Chinese: “飞鱼湾 / 飛魚灣”
  • Chinese: “飞鱼湾”
  • Cornish: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Croatian: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Czech: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Czech: “The Settlement”
  • Danish: “The Settlement”
  • Dutch: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فلاينج فيش كوف”
  • Esperanto: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Finnish: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Finnish: “The Settlement”
  • French: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • French: “The Settlement”
  • Galician: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Georgian: “ფლაინგ ფიში”
  • Georgian: “ფლაინგ-ფიში”
  • Georgian: “ფლინგ ფიში”
  • German: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • German: “The Settlement”
  • Greek: “The Settlement”
  • Greek: “Φλάινγκ Φις Κόουβ”
  • Hebrew: “פלאיינג פיש קואוב”
  • Hindi: “फ्लाइंग फिश कोव”
  • Icelandic: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Indonesian: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Irish: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Italian: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Italian: “The Settlement”
  • Japanese: “フライング・フィッシュ・コーブ”
  • Japanese: “フライングフィッシュ・コーブ”
  • Japanese: “フライングフィッシュコーブ”
  • Kazakh: “Флайинг-Фиш-Коув”
  • Korean: “플라잉피시코브”
  • Latvian: “Flaiingfiškova”
  • Latvian: “Setlments”
  • Ligurian: “The Settlement”
  • Lithuanian: “Flajing Fiš Kovas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Macedonian: “Флаинг Фиш Коув”
  • Mazanderani: “فلاینگ فیش کاو”
  • Mingrelian: “ფლაინგ-ფიშ-კოვი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Norwegian: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Panjabi: “ਫ਼ਲਾਇੰਗ ਫ਼ਿਸ਼ ਕੋਵ”
  • Persian: “فلاینگ فیش کاو”
  • Polish: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Portuguese: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Portuguese: “The settlement”
  • Portuguese: “The Settlement”
  • Romanian: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Russian: “Флайинг-Фиш-Ков”
  • Russian: “Флайинг-Фиш-Коув”
  • Scots: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Serbian: “Флајинг Фиш Ков”
  • Serbian: “Флајинг Фиш Коув”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Sinhala: “ෆ්ලයින් ෆිෂ් බොක්ක”
  • Spanish: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Spanish: “The Settlement”
  • Swedish: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Swedish: “The Settlement”
  • Tamil: “பிளையிங் பிஷ் கோவ்”
  • Thai: “ฟลายอิงฟิชโคฟ”
  • Turkish: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Turkish: “The Settlement”
  • Ukrainian: “Флаїнг-Фіш-Коув”
  • Urdu: “جزیرہ کرسمس کا دارالحکومت”
  • Urdu: “فلائینگ فش کوو”
  • Vietnamese: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Waray (Philippines): “The Settlement, Christmas Island”
  • Welsh: “Flying Fish Cove”
  • Wu Chinese: “飞鱼湾”
  • Yue Chinese: “飛魚灣”

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