Eromanga, Queensland is the farthest of any Australian town from the coast. To the nearest coastal point, as the crow flies, Eromanga is about 790km from the ocean.
4,700 km - about 2 days 9 hours
All the way to the shark...
Palm Island is about 65 kilometres north-west of Townsville, on the northeast Queensland coast. It was named by Captain James Cook in June 1770, after the many cabbage tree palms growing there.
From Sale, Victoria, to Brisbane, Queensland is a distance of 1718 km, travelling via the coastal route, which is the shortest way.
It's about 73 km from the CBD in Brisbane (the capital of Queensland) to Southport on the Gold Coast, travelling along the M1 Motorway.
Kangchenjunga is a mountain many kilometres inland in the Himalayas on the Nepalese-Indian border.
542 kilometres taking this route:Take A6 HUGHENDEN (Flinders Hwy), from Cloncurry, to A2 CLONCURRY.Take A2 into Cloncurry.
The area of the Indian Ocean is 28,400,000 square miles (73,556,000 square kilometres).
From Roma in western Queensland to Brisbane's Princess Alexandra hospital is a distance of 471km. The trip takes around 6 hours.
The distance between Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia and Noosa Heads, Queensland is 930 kilometres, which is approximately 577 miles.
The air distance from Rome, Italy, to Brisbane, Australia, is 9,544 miles. That equals 15,359 kilometers or 8,293 sea miles.
The Wikipedia library documents the Atlantic Ocean as covering a "total area of about 106.4 million square kilometres (41.1 million square miles)."