Crab Island
Crab Island, called Moent Island in the native language, is a now uninhabited island west of Muttee Heads and the coastal community of Seisia which is adjacent to Bamaga at the tip of Cape York Peninsula within the Endeavour Strait in the Gulf of Carpentaria in Queensland, Australia.Crab Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Queensland
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Queensland, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-10.98236° or 10° 58′ 57″ south
Longitude
142.10884° or 142° 6′ 32″ east
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
Open location code
5RX42495+3G
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastline
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Crab Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Crab Island”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كراب ايسلاند”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كراب”
- Esperanto: “Krabinsulo”
- German: “Crab Island”
- German: “Moent Island”
- Swedish: “Crab Island, Queensland”
- Swedish: “Crab Island”
- Turkish: “Crab Adası (I)”
- Turkish: “Crab Island”
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