Horseshoe Bay
Horseshoe Bay is a bay, town and suburb on Magnetic Island in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It is a major tourist accommodation and recreation centre on the island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Stevage, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Suburb with 710 residents
- Description: suburb of Townsville, Queensland, Australia
- Also known as: “Horseshoe Bay, Queensland” and “Horseshoe Bay, Queensland, Australia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Magnetic Island and Alma Bay.
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.
Alma Bay
Beach
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Alma Bay is an island town within the locality of Arcadia on Magnetic Island in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. Alma Bay is situated 2½ km south of Horseshoe Bay.
Horseshoe Bay
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Townsville, Queensland, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-19.12529° or 19° 7′ 31″ southLongitude
146.86187° or 146° 51′ 43″ eastPopulation
710Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)Open location code
5RG8VVF6+VPOpenStreetMap ID
node 252355210OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
8310719Wikidata ID
Q5905962
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Swedish—“Horseshoe Bay” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Horseshoe Bay”
- Cebuano: “Horseshoe Bay”
- Chinese: “馬蹄灣”
- Dutch: “Horseshoe Bay”
- French: “Horseshoe Bay”
- Polish: “Horseshoe Bay (Australia)”
- Polish: “Horseshoe Bay”
- Swedish: “Horseshoe Bay, Queensland”
- Swedish: “Horseshoe Bay”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Horseshoe Bay”. Photo: Stevage, CC BY-SA 3.0.