Explore Whitsunday Island, Queensland, Australia, with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Whitsunday 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 Whitsunday 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 Whitsunday 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 Whitsunday 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 | Whitsunday Island |
| State | Queensland (QLD) |
| Country | Australia |
| Timezone | Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) - no daylight saving |
| Latitude | -20.25972 |
| Longitude | 148.98055 |
| Elevation | 126 m |
| Area Code | 07 |
| Distance to Brisbane | 901 km north-north-west |
Whitsunday Island is a locality in Queensland, Australia. It sits at an elevation of around 126 m above sea level. It lies approximately 901 km north-north-west of Brisbane. Whitsunday Island is located at 20.2597°S, 148.9805°E. It observes Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) - no daylight saving.
Whitsunday Island rises from the Coral Sea as a mountainous spine of ancient volcanic rock, draped in dense, emerald rainforest and fringed by silica sand so fine it squeaks underfoot. It lies 100.5 km north-north-west of Mackay, QLD (from Mackay, QLD: bearing 348°T), and is situated 26.3 km east of Jubilee Pocket. The landscape is defined by the sharp contrast between the deep, bruised blues of the surrounding currents and the blinding, spectral white of Whitehaven Beach, where the tide retreats to reveal a shifting mosaic of shallow channels. Here, the air holds a permanent, briny weight, thick with the scent of crushed mangroves and the salt-spray that glazes the leaves of hoop pines clinging to the cliff faces. As the sun begins to lower, the light catches the quartz grains in the sand, turning the shoreline into a brilliant, incandescent ribbon that seems to hum with the heat of the day.
Whitsunday Island remains an uninhabited wilderness, protected as a national park, standing as a quiet counterpoint to the bustling maritime commerce of the mainland ports. Unlike the neighbouring islands that host resorts and jetties, Whitsunday Island preserves a sense of solitude that has drawn explorers and sailors for generations, serving as a sanctuary where the natural world dictates the pace of movement. The economy of the region relies heavily on the steady stream of yachts and small craft that navigate the sheltered passages, bringing visitors to witness the geological stillness of the island’s interior. High above the sheltered coves, the dense canopy remains a silent observer of the seasonal shift from the dry, clear winter to the humid, thunderous build-up of the wet, where the island seems to draw a deep, expectant breath before the monsoon arrives.
Sources: curated tourist landmarks, CAPAD 2024 (Australian protected areas), OpenStreetMap.
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This page provides a street and satellite map of Whitsunday 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 Whitsunday Island.
Detailed location data for Whitsunday 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 Whitsunday 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. |