Banksia Island
Banksia Island is a small island in the Montebello Islands, off the north-west coast of Western Australia. It is located at. It is thought to be the "Banks Island" upon which the dipterist John Russell Malloch collected the type specimen for Lamprogaster indistincta, a species of signal fly, in 1928.Banksia Island
- Type: Islet
- Description: island in Western Australia
- Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Western Australia, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-20.40249° or 20° 24′ 9″ south
Longitude
115.51518° or 115° 30′ 55″ east
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
Open location code
5PFQHGX8+23
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastline
OpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Banksia Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Banksia Island”
- Dutch: “Banksia Island”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بانكسيا”
- German: “Banksia Island”
- Swedish: “Banksia Island”
- Turkish: “Banksia Adası”
- Turkish: “Banksia Island”
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