Explore Bedarra Island, Queensland, Australia, with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Bedarra Island, QLD map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — Geoscience Australia topographic mapping and the classic NATMAP 1:250 000 sheets — plus a labelled MGA grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below. You will find live weather, local and world news further down the page.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Bedarra Island, Queensland, Australia. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen for a larger view. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key on your keyboard, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
Drag the map to pan to any area of Queensland or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Bedarra Island and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the Geoscience Australia National Base Map — seamless topographic mapping covering the mainland, Tasmania and the external territories. NATMAP 250K shows the classic NATMAP 1:250 000 map sheets, mosaicked nationwide — the printed sheets generations of Australians navigated the outback with. The search box finds any Australian town, suburb or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Bedarra Island.
Reading the map like a paper sheet. Click Grid to overlay the Map Grid of Australia (MGA), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as an MGA grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — the grid reference being what emergency services and search and rescue work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need mobile coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load, which across much of inland Australia is most of the time.
Map search is available for a limited number of queries per session to manage costs. Be specific — search precisely for best results.
| Locality | Bedarra Island |
| State | Queensland (QLD) |
| Country | Australia |
| Timezone | Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) - no daylight saving |
| Latitude | -18.00429 |
| Longitude | 146.14859 |
| Elevation | 101 m |
| Area Code | 07 |
| Distance to Brisbane | 1266 km north-west |
Bedarra Island is a locality in Queensland, Australia. It sits at an elevation of around 101 m above sea level. It lies approximately 1266 km north-west of Brisbane. Bedarra Island is located at 18.0043°S, 146.1486°E. It observes Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) - no daylight saving.
Bedarra Island rises from the Coral Sea as a lush, granite-strewn fortress of dense tropical rainforest, buffered by the shifting turquoise gradients of the Family Islands group. It lies 156.3 km north-north-west of Townsville City, QLD (from Townsville City, QLD: bearing 333°T), and is situated 12.9 km south-south-east of Wongaling Beach. [System navigation sentence]. Massive, weather-worn boulders anchor the shoreline, their grey, lichen-dusted surfaces offering a stark contrast to the brilliant white quartz sands that line the secluded coves. Beneath the canopy of towering hoop pines and fan palms, the air remains heavy with the scent of damp earth and salt, a humid stillness that is broken only by the rhythmic, percussive calls of orange-footed scrubfowl. As evening approaches, the light across Bedarra Island softens into a bruised violet, casting long, liquid shadows that seem to pull the surrounding reef closer to the jagged, verdant coast.
Human presence on Bedarra Island has long been defined by a deliberate, quiet seclusion, favouring the preservation of its rugged topography over the intrusion of large-scale industry. Historically, the island served as a sanctuary for those seeking to withdraw from the mainland, attracting artists and writers who found inspiration in its isolation and the slow, tidal pulse of the reef. Today, the local economy operates almost entirely through low-impact, high-end tourism, where the architecture of the few existing dwellings is designed to dissolve into the foliage rather than dominate the horizon. There are no roads here, no hum of machinery; the passage of time is marked instead by the seasonal migrations of seabirds and the gentle, persistent erosion of the granite headlands by the tides. This is a place where the landscape dictates the pace, demanding a stillness from those who walk its narrow, leaf-strewn tracks.
Sources: curated tourist landmarks, CAPAD 2024 (Australian protected areas), OpenStreetMap.
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This page provides a street and satellite map of Bedarra Island, Queensland. Live weather conditions with current observations and a 7-day forecast are powered by Open-Meteo. Real-time local news and world news feeds keep the page current, while an editorially written description provides background on Bedarra Island.
Detailed location data for Bedarra Island includes the postcode, telephone area code (07). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any Australian city, town or locality.
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any Australian town, suburb or landmark by name; offers Geoscience Australia topographic mapping and the classic NATMAP 1:250 000 sheets as base layers; overlays a labelled Map Grid of Australia (MGA) so the map can be read like a printed topographic sheet; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as an MGA grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require mobile coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from Geoscape Administrative Boundaries (GDA2020) and enriched with GeoNames and Australian Bureau of Statistics data, matched by coordinate proximity — ensuring the correct Bedarra Island is identified even where the name is shared across multiple localities.
| Page generated | October 2026 |
| Location data | Geoscape Administrative Boundaries (GDA2020); enriched with GeoNames and ABS 2021 Census data, matched by coordinate proximity |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; © Geoscience Australia National Base Map and NATMAP 1:250 000 (CC BY 4.0); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Description | Editorial description generated with AI assistance from verified Geoscape, ABS and GeoNames location data. |