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.

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

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.

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″ south

Longitude

146.83085° or 146° 49′ 51″ east

Elevation

11 metres (36 feet)

Open location code

5RG8RRFJ+88

OpenStreetMap ID

node 2122458803

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=bay

GeoNames ID

8192624

Wikidata ID

Q5139622

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Satellite Map

Discover Cockle Bay from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

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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