Rat Island

Rat Island is an island in Victoria, Australia. Rat Island is situated nearby to the town Point Lonsdale.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Duck Island and Queenscliff railway station.

Duck Island

Island

Duck Island, a small barrier island, lies 1.5 km north of Swan Island and south of Edwards Point in the main entrance to Swan Bay from Port Phillip in southern Victoria, Australia.

Queenscliff railway station

Railway stop

Photo: Jjron, GFDL.

Queenscliff railway station was the terminus of the Queenscliff branch line in Victoria, Australia, which left the main Warrnambool line near South Geelong station. Queenscliff railway station is situated 3½ km southwest of Rat Island.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Queenscliff and St Leonards.

Queenscliff is an historic maritime community perched on a small spit of land in the south-eastern most corner of the Bellarine Peninsula. Located in the Greater Geelong region of Victoria, the town was settled only a few years after Melbourne, and is characterised by its strong European heritage, maritime and seafaring character and its lasting connection to the sea.

St Leonards

Suburb

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

St Leonards is a coastal township on the Bellarine Peninsula, near Geelong, Victoria, Australia. It is situated 33 kilometres east of Geelong, at the eastern end of the Bellarine Peninsula, and north of Swan Bay. St Leonards is situated 8 km northeast of Rat Island.

Point Nepean National Park

Photo: Junedee Balili, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Point Nepean National Park is a national park in Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia. There are 70 registered Aboriginal archaeological sites within the Point Nepean National Park.

Rat Island

Type: Island
Description: island in Victoria, Australia
Category: landform
Location: Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-38.23569° or 38° 14′ 9″ south

Longitude

144.67708° or 144° 40′ 38″ east

Open location code

4RH6QM7G+PR

GeoNames ID

2208072

Wikidata ID

Q21923324

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Turkish—“Rat Island” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Rat Island (pulo sa Awstralya, State of Victoria)”
Cebuano: “Rat Island”
Swedish: “Rat Island”
Turkish: “Rat Adası (I)”
Turkish: “Rat Island”

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