SS City of Adelaide
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Twistie.man, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: Disaster remains
- Description: iron-hulled ship
- Also known as: “SS City of Adelaide Shipwreck”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Magnetic Island.
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.
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 6 km southwest of SS City of Adelaide.
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 8 km southwest of SS City of Adelaide.
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.
SS City of Adelaide
- Categories: ship, shipwreck, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Queensland, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-19.17482° or 19° 10′ 29″ southLongitude
146.82537° or 146° 49′ 31″ eastOpen location code
5RG8RRGG+34OpenStreetMap ID
way 919263086OpenStreetMap feature
historic=wreckWikidata ID
Q7393369
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Irish to Spanish—“SS City of Adelaide” goes by many names.
- Irish: “SS City of Adelaide”
- Papiamento: “SS City of Adelaide”
- Persian: “اساس سیتی آو آدلاید”
- Spanish: “City of Adelaide”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sails Rock Lookout and Sails Rock.
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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 “SS City of Adelaide”. Photo: Twistie.man, CC BY-SA 3.0.