Wellesley Islands, Mornington Shire, Queensland
Explore Wellesley Islands, Queensland, Australia, with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Wellesley Islands, 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 Wellesley Islands, 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 Wellesley Islands 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 Wellesley Islands.
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.
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| Locality | Wellesley Islands |
| State | Queensland (QLD) |
| Local Government Area | Mornington Shire |
| Country | Australia |
| Timezone | Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) - no daylight saving |
| Latitude | -16.23138 |
| Longitude | 139.25265 |
| Area | 0.0 km² |
| Area Code | 07 |
| Distance to Brisbane | 1890 km northwest |
Wellesley Islands is a locality in the Mornington Shire local government area of Queensland, Australia. The locality covers an area of 0.0 km². It lies approximately 1890 km northwest of Brisbane. Wellesley Islands is located at 16.2314°S, 139.2526°E. It observes Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) - no daylight saving.
Wellesley Islands shimmer under the immense Queensland sky, a scattering of emerald jewels adrift in the Gulf of Carpentaria. It lies 860.9 km west-north-west of Kirwan, QLD (from Kirwan, QLD: bearing 292°T). The terrain here is low-lying, a mosaic of mangrove-fringed coastlines giving way to saltpans and open savanna woodland further inland. The air carries the tang of the sea, a subtle perfume mixed with the dry, dusty scent of the land, and the light, especially in the late afternoon, can cast a luminous, almost ethereal glow across the shallow waters and the sparse vegetation. The islands themselves are a testament to the persistent forces of erosion and deposition, their shapes sculpted by the tides and the occasional fierce tropical cyclone, with stretches of sandy beach interspersed with rocky outcrops.
Historically, these islands hold echoes of ancient journeys and more recent endeavours. For millennia, they were a part of the Country of the Waiben people, their presence marked by stories and the enduring connection to the land and sea. Later, pearling fleets and trochus shell divers plied these waters, their livelihoods intimately tied to the bounty of the Gulf. Today, the economy of Wellesley Islands is largely driven by the surrounding pastoral stations, with cattle grazing on the mainland stretching towards the coast. The islands themselves offer a quiet refuge, a place where the pace of life is dictated by the sun and the tides, and where the vastness of the seascape fosters a profound sense of solitude.
Sources: curated tourist landmarks, CAPAD 2024 (Australian protected areas), OpenStreetMap.
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This page provides a street and satellite map of Wellesley Islands, 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 Wellesley Islands, in the Mornington Shire local government area.
Detailed location data for Wellesley Islands includes the postcode, telephone area code (07), and local government area (Mornington Shire). 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 Wellesley Islands 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. |