Cockle Bay
Cockle Bay is a small bay within the locality of Picnic Bay on south-western corner of Magnetic Island, City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Magnetic Island and SS City of Adelaide.
Magnetic Island
Photo: Leonhard Fortier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Magnetic Island is an island directly off the coast of Townsville in Central Queensland. Over half the land area of the island is a National Park. Magnetic Island is roughly 7 km by 5 km, with 25 km of walking tracks and several beaches and little bays.
SS City of Adelaide
Disaster remains
Photo: Twistie.man, CC BY-SA 3.0.
City of Adelaide was an iron-hulled ship that was launched in Scotland in 1863, spent a long career in Australian passenger and cargo service, and sank off the coast of Queensland in 1916.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pallarenda and Rowes Bay.
Pallarenda
Suburb
Pallarenda is a northern coastal suburb of Townsville in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Pallarenda had a population of 778 people.
Rowes Bay
Suburb
Photo: ROxBo, Public domain.
Rowes Bay is a suburb of Townsville in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Rowes Bay had a population of 541 people.
Townsville
Townsville is a laid-back coastal city of over 173,724 people in North Central Queensland. Townsville is on the coast and enjoys an average of 320 days of sunshine a year.
Cockle Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in Queensland, Australia
- Category: body of water
- Location: Queensland, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-19.17664° or 19° 10′ 36″ southLongitude
146.83085° or 146° 49′ 51″ eastElevation
11 metres (36 feet)Open location code
5RG8RRFJ+88OpenStreetMap ID
node 2122458803OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Cockle Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Cockle Bay (luuk sa Awstralya, State of Queensland)”
- Cebuano: “Cockle Bay”
- Swedish: “Cockle Bay (vik i Australien, Queensland)”
- Swedish: “Cockle Bay, Queensland”
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Localities in the Area
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