Possession Island
The Torres Strait Islands are a group of islands to the north of the Australian mainland, stretching nearly as far as Papua New Guinea. There are 14 inhabited islands, but only the two neighbouring islands of Thursday Island and Horn Island have developed visitor facilities.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: one of the Torres Strait Islands, off the coast of far north Queensland, Australia
- Also known as: “Bedanug”
Possession Island
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Queensland, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-10.72913° or 10° 43′ 45″ southLongitude
142.39738° or 142° 23′ 51″ eastElevation
11 metres (36 feet)Open location code
5RX479CW+8XOpenStreetMap ID
way 622928070OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
2152645Wikidata ID
Q1361133
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Possession Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Possession Island”
- Chinese: “屬領島”
- Dutch: “Possession Island”
- German: “Possession-Island-Nationalpark”
- Hebrew: “פוזשן”
- Italian: “Possession Island”
- Japanese: “ポゼッション島”
- Japanese: “占拠島”
- Spanish: “Parque Nacional Isla Posesion”
- Spanish: “Parque nacional Isla Posesión”
- Swedish: “Possession Island”
- Turkish: “Possession Adası”
- Turkish: “Possession Island”
- Yue Chinese: “屬領島”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Possession Island”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.