Beagle Bay
Beagle Bay is a medium-sized Aboriginal community on the western side of the Dampier Peninsula, north of Broome in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Beagle Bay was named in 1838 by John Clements Wickham, captain of HMS Beagle.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 307 residents
- Description: community in Western Australia
- Also known as: “Beagle Bay Community”, “Beagle Bay Community, Western Australia”, “Beagle Bay Mission”, and “Beagle Bay, Western Australia”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bobieding.
Bobieding
Village
Bobieding is a small Aboriginal community, located 120 kilometres north of Broome in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, within the Shire of Broome. Bobieding is situated 3½ km west of Beagle Bay.
Beagle Bay
- Categories: locality and Indigenous Australian community
- Location: Broome, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-16.98374° or 16° 59′ 2″ southLongitude
122.66445° or 122° 39′ 52″ eastPopulation
307Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)IATA airport code
BEEUnited Nations Location Code
AU BEEOpen location code
5QM42M87+GQOpenStreetMap ID
node 2068000597OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
8310671Wikidata ID
Q4876087
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Polish—“Beagle Bay” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “Beagle灣社區”
- Chinese: “Beagle灣社群”
- Dutch: “Beagle Bay (Kimberley)”
- Dutch: “Beagle Bay”
- Estonian: “Beagle Bay”
- Japanese: “ビーグルベイコミュニティ”
- Polish: “Beagle Bay”
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