Moa Island
Moa Island, also called Banks Island, is an island of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago that is located 40 kilometres north of Thursday Island in the Banks Channel of Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: island in the Torres Strait in Queensland, Australia
- Also known as: “Banks Island”, “Moa Island, Queensland”, and “Moa Island, Queensland, Australia”
Moa Island
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Queensland, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-10.18871° or 10° 11′ 19″ southLongitude
142.26542° or 142° 15′ 56″ eastPopulation
432Elevation
25 metres (82 feet)Open location code
5RX4R768+G5OpenStreetMap ID
way 27771319OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Moa Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Moa Island”
- Dutch: “Moa Island”
- Egyptian Arabic: “موا ايسلاند”
- Egyptian Arabic: “موا”
- French: “île Moa”
- French: “Île Moa”
- Georgian: “მოა”
- German: “Moa Island”
- Hungarian: “Moa-sziget”
- Italian: “Moa Island”
- Russian: “Моа”
- Swedish: “Moa Island”
- Turkish: “Moa Adası”
- Turkish: “Moa Island”
- Ukrainian: “Моа”
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