Vansittart Island
Vansittart Island, also known as Gun Carriage Island, is a granite island with an area of 800 hectares. The island is part of Tasmania's Vansittart Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait between Flinders and Cape Barren Islands in the Furneaux Group.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Graeme Bartlett, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Puncheon Island.
Puncheon Island
Islet
Puncheon Island is an island, with an area of 17.56 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Vansittart Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait between Flinders and Cape Barren Islands in the Furneaux Group.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lady Barron.
Lady Barron
Village
Photo: JJ Harrison, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lady Barron is a small settlement on the southern end of Flinders Island, in the local government area of Flinders in the North-east region of Tasmania. Lady Barron is situated 9 km northwest of Vansittart Island.
Vansittart Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Tasmania, Australia
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Launceston, Eastern Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-40.27513° or 40° 16′ 31″ southLongitude
148.30207° or 148° 18′ 7″ eastElevation
79 metres (259 feet)Open location code
4RFCP8F2+WROpenStreetMap ID
way 68887621OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
2145310Wikidata ID
Q7915186
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Vansittart Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Vansittart Island”
- French: “Vansittart Island”
- German: “Gun Carriage Island”
- German: “Vansittart Island”
- Italian: “Vansittart Island”
- Polish: “Wyspa Vansittart (Tasmania)”
- Polish: “Wyspa Vansittart”
- Swedish: “Vansittart Island”
- Turkish: “Vansittart Adası”
- Turkish: “Vansittart Island”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Guncarriage Hill and Farsund.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Vansittart Island”. Photo: Graeme Bartlett, CC BY-SA 3.0.