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Bowen Island

Bowen Island is a sandstone island lying 250 metres off the tip of the Bherwerre Peninsula at the entrance to , on the coast of , Australia.
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Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cape St George Lighthouse.

Photo: John Eggers, CC BY-SA 3.0.
was a lighthouse that stood near Jervis Bay Village, Jervis Bay Territory, . It was located about 3 kilometres south of the southern entrance to .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Point Perpendicular and Jervis Bay Village.

Locality
is a point at the southern tip of the and at the northern entry to , in New South Wales, Australia. It is the location of Light, a historic lighthouse which was active from 1889 to 1993, and a replacement skeletal tower which is active.

Village
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is a village in the , . HMAS Creswell Royal Australian Navy base is located in the village. Apart from the navy base there is an Aboriginal community in the village.

Locality
Photo: Rufusferret, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is an internal territory of . It was established in 1915 by the transfer of jurisdiction from the state of to the federal Commonwealth of Australia, in order to give the federal government control of a port in the vicinity of the landlocked .

Bowen Island

Latitude
-35.11889° or 35° 7′ 8″ south
Longitude
150.76813° or 150° 46′ 5″ east
Open location code
4RPGVQJ9+C7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 13133160273
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
2174433
Wiki­data ID
Q4950816
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Satellite Map

Discover Bowen Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Turkish—“Bowen Island” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Bowen Island”
  • Dutch: “Bowen Island”
  • German: “Bowen Island”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Bowen (Teluk Jervis)”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Bowen”
  • Italian: “Bowen Island”
  • Portuguese: “Bowen Island (Austrália)”
  • Portuguese: “Bowen Island”
  • Swedish: “Bowen Island, Australien”
  • Swedish: “Bowen Island”
  • Turkish: “Bowen Adası”
  • Turkish: “Bowen Island”

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Localities in the Area

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Highlights include Governors Head Lookout and Murrays Beach.

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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 “Bowen Island”. Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.