Tiwi Islands
The Tiwi Islands are part of the Northern Territory, Australia, 80 km to the north of Darwin adjoining the Timor Sea. They comprise Melville Island, Bathurst Island, and nine smaller uninhabited islands, with a combined area of 8,320 square kilometres.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: Locality with 166 residents
- Description: island group off the Northern Australian coast
- Also known as: “Ratuati Irara”, “Tiwi Island”, “Tiwi Islands, Northern Territory”, and “Tiwi Islands, Northern Territory, Australia”
Tiwi Islands
- Categories: island group and territory
- Location: Tiwi Islands, Top End, Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-11.5153° or 11° 30′ 55″ south
Longitude
130.78° or 130° 46′ 48″ east
Population
166
Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)
Open location code
5QWGFQMH+VX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Tiwi Islands” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزر تيوي”
- Armenian: “Թիվիի կղզիներ”
- Catalan: “illes Tiwi”
- Catalan: “Illes Tiwi”
- Cebuano: “Tiwi Islands”
- Chinese: “提維群島”
- Chinese: “提维群岛”
- Dutch: “Tiwi Islands”
- French: “îles Tiwi”
- French: “Îles Tiwi”
- Galician: “Illas Tiwi”
- Georgian: “ტივის კუნძულები”
- German: “Tiwi Islands”
- German: “Tiwi-Inseln”
- Hebrew: “איי טיווי”
- Hindi: “टिवी द्वीप समूह”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Tiwi”
- Italian: “Isole Tiwi”
- Japanese: “ティウィ諸島”
- Javanese: “Pulo Tiwi”
- Korean: “티위 제도”
- Latvian: “Tivi salas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tiwi Islands”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tiwiøyene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tiwiøyane”
- Norwegian: “Tiwiøyene”
- Persian: “جزایر تیوا”
- Persian: “جزیره تیوا”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Tiwi”
- Russian: “Острова Тиви”
- Russian: “Тиви”
- Slovenian: “Tiwi Islands”
- Spanish: “Islas Tivi”
- Spanish: “Islas Tiví”
- Swedish: “Tiwi Islands”
- Tamil: “டிவி தீவுகள்”
- Tamil: “தீவி தீவுகள்”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะตีวิ”
- Ukrainian: “Тіві”
- Urdu: “جزائر تیوی”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Tiwi”
- Western Panjabi: “جزائر تیوی”
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