St Pauls

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St Pauls

Total population

278

Coordinates-10.19°, 142.33°

Demographic figures from Australian Bureau of Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Moa Island, also called Banks Island, is an island of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago that is located 40 kilometres (25 mi) north of Thursday Island in the Banks Channel of Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia. It is also a locality within the Torres Strait Island Region local government area. This island is the largest within the "Near Western" group. It has two towns, Kubin on the south-west coast and St Pauls on the east coast, which are connected by bitumen and a gravel road. In the 2021 census, Moa Island had a population of 432 people.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Wildlife & biodiversity

Citizen-science & research observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Earthquake history

Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).

Notable people from here

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Queensland

• Seisia
  45.6 mi away · pop. 293
• Boigu
  66.5 mi away · pop. 199
• Bramwell Junction
  132.6 mi away
• Lockhart River
  192.1 mi away · pop. 606
• Pormpuraaw
  329.1 mi away · pop. 606
• Lakeland
  427.3 mi away
• Rocky Point
  475.9 mi away
• Mount Carbine
  476.9 mi away
• Mossman Gorge Aboriginal Community
  479.3 mi away
• Julatten
  487.4 mi away
• Chillagoe
  503.3 mi away · pop. 150
• Njinjilki
  511.9 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about St Pauls

The existentialists and Jean-Paul Sartre

M. J. Charlesworth · 1975

Anglican cemeteries & columbaria (Brisbane)

Eric Kopittke · 1997

Poems by John Keats

John Keats · 1800

Graphics explained

Michael Evamy · 2009

The Dickens myth

Geoffrey Thurley · 1976

Water

Chris Saines · 2019

Information services today

Sandra Hirsh · 2015

Poems

William Wordsworth · 1807

Search results from Open Library.

Official Identifiers