Nelly Bay
Nelly Bay is a town on Magnetic Island and a suburb of the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. A tourism hub on the island, it is especially significant as the site of the ferry terminal, which links it to Townsville.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 1,660 residents
- Description: suburb of Townsville, Queensland, Australia
- Also known as: “Nelly Bay, Queensland” and “Nelly 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.
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. SS City of Adelaide is situated 3½ km southwest of Nelly Bay.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pallarenda.
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. Pallarenda is situated 10 km southwest of Nelly Bay.
Nelly Bay
- Category: locality
- Location: Townsville, Queensland, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-19.15627° or 19° 9′ 23″ southLongitude
146.85033° or 146° 51′ 1″ eastPopulation
1,660Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)Open location code
5RG8RVV2+F4OpenStreetMap ID
node 252355316OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
8310748Wikidata ID
Q6990222
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Nelly Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Nelly Bay”
- Italian: “Nelly Bay”
- Polish: “Nelly Bay”
- Swedish: “Nelly Bay (del av en befolkad plats)”
- Swedish: “Nelly Bay”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Old Cemetery and Nelly Bay Childrens Playground.
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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 “Nelly Bay”. Photo: Twistie.man, CC BY-SA 3.0.