Cable Beach
Cable Beach is a 22 km stretch of white sand beach on the eastern Indian Ocean and the name of the surrounding suburb in Broome, Western Australia. Cable Beach was named after the telegraph cable laid between Broome and Java in 1889.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Kate Branch Photography, CC0.
- Type: Suburb with 5,440 residents
- Description: locality in Broome, Western Australia, Australia
- Also known as: “Cable Beach, Western Australia” and “Cable Beach, Western Australia, Australia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Broome International Airport and Broome Regional Prison.
Broome International Airport
Aerodrome
Broome International Airport is a regional airport located 0.4 nautical miles west of the Broome GPO, Western Australia. Broome International Airport is the regional hub of the northwestern part of Western Australia.
Broome Regional Prison
Prison
Broome Regional Prison is an Australian prison in Broome, Western Australia. It is one of two prisons in Western Australia's Kimberley region. In 2012 it was announced that the prison would be closed in 2015 following the opening of the West Kimberley Regional Prison in Derby, but this plan was shelved in 2015. Broome Regional Prison is situated 3 km east of Cable Beach.
Broome Senior High School
School
Broome Senior High School is a comprehensive public co-educational high day school, located in Broome, a regional centre in the Kimberley region, 2,240 kilometres north east of Perth, Western Australia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Broome and Djugun.
Broome
Photo: Binarysequence, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Broome is the largest town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, with 14,660 residents in 2021. Established through the pearling industry of the late 19th century, it became a beach resort in the 1980s.
Djugun
Suburb
Djugun is a northern suburb of Broome, Western Australia within the local government area of the Shire of Broome. The name relates to the language of the local Djugun or Jukun Aboriginal people.
Bilingurr
Suburb
Bilingurr is a northern suburb of Broome, Western Australia within the local government area of the Shire of Broome. Its population has increased from 231 at the 2006 Census to 1,354 at the 2016 census. Bilingurr is situated 3½ km northeast of Cable Beach.
Cable Beach
- Category: locality
- Location: Broome, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-17.95123° or 17° 57′ 4″ southLongitude
122.21555° or 122° 12′ 56″ eastPopulation
5,440Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)Open location code
5QJ426X8+G6OpenStreetMap ID
node 248771712OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
8349027Wikidata ID
Q55819367
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In Other Languages
“Cable Beach” goes by many names.
- Hausa: “Cable Beach”
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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 “Cable Beach”. Photo: Kate Branch Photography, CC0.