Picnic Bay
Picnic Bay is a town and suburb of Magnetic Island in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It is named for the bay on the southernmost corner of Magnetic Island where the town is situated.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb with 330 residents
- Description: suburb of Townsville, Queensland, Australia
- Also known as: “Picnic Bay, Queensland” and “Picnic Bay, 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. Pallarenda is situated 8 km southwest of Picnic Bay.
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. Rowes Bay is situated 9 km southwest of Picnic Bay.
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.
Picnic Bay
- Category: locality
- Location: Townsville, Queensland, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-19.17624° or 19° 10′ 35″ southLongitude
146.83843° or 146° 50′ 18″ eastPopulation
330Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)Open location code
5RG8RRFQ+G9OpenStreetMap ID
node 252355354OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
8310766Wikidata ID
Q7190973
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Polish—“Picnic Bay” goes by many names.
- French: “Picnic Bay”
- Polish: “Picnic Bay”
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