Queensland
Outback Queensland
Shire of Diamantina

Birdsville

Birdsville is a remote town in outback , right on the edge of the Simpson Desert. It has a population of around 300, but a steady stream of visitors heading outback or returning from the desert.
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  • Type: Town with 110 residents
  • Description: town in Queensland, Australia
  • Also known as: “Birdsville, Queensland” and “Birdsville, Queensland, Australia”
  • Neighbors:
Photo: BrisbanePom, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Birdsville Airport and Birdsville Hotel.

Aerodrome
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is an airport serving Birdsville, Queensland, Australia. During the Birdsville Races weekend each September, as many as 200 light aircraft visit the airport, with aviators permitted to camp under the wings of their planes.

Pub
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is a heritage-listed hotel at Burt Street, Birdsville, , , Australia. It was built c. 1884. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.

Vacant shop
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Royal Hotel is a heritage-listed former hotel, former and now ruin at Adelaide Street, Birdsville, , , Australia.

Birdsville

Latitude
-25.8981° or 25° 53′ 53″ south
Longitude
139.3523° or 139° 21′ 8″ east
Population
110
Elevation
48 metres (157 feet)
IATA airport code
BVI
United Nations Location Code
AU BVI
Open location code
5Q6X4922+QW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1971543681
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2076533
Wiki­data ID
Q865118
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Birdsville” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيردزفيل”
  • Asturian: “Birdsville”
  • Basque: “Birdsville”
  • Cebuano: “Birdsville”
  • Chinese: “伯茲維爾”
  • Dutch: “Birdsville”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيردزفيل”
  • French: “Birdsville”
  • German: “Birdsville”
  • Japanese: “バーズビル”
  • Persian: “بیردزویل”
  • Polish: “Birdsville”
  • Portuguese: “Birdsville”
  • Romanian: “Birdsville, queensland”
  • Romanian: “Birdsville, Queensland”
  • Romanian: “Birdsville”
  • Russian: “Бердсвилл”
  • Russian: “Бёрдсвилл”
  • Spanish: “Birdsville”
  • Swedish: “Birdsville”
  • Ukrainian: “Бердсвілл”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Birdsville”. Photo: Yeti Hunter, CC BY-SA 3.0.