Wongaling Beach (Wongaling Beach)
Wongaling Beach is a tropical beachside coastal town and locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the, the locality of Wongaling Beach had a population of 1,245 people.
The locality takes its name from the beach Wongaling Beach (-17.9039°N, 146.0974°W) which extends the length of the locality's coastline, and is part of a continuous 11 km sandy coastline which links the three adjacent coastal localities (from north to south): Mission Beach (sometimes called North Mission Beach), Wongaling Beach, and South Mission Beach.
Most of the residential development is along the eastern coastal strip of the locality with the town centre on the coast in the south-east of the locality. The western part of the locality is undeveloped tropical forests.
Dunk Island lies off the southern coast of Wongaling Beach.
The locality takes its name from the beach Wongaling Beach (-17.9039°N, 146.0974°W) which extends the length of the locality's coastline, and is part of a continuous 11 km sandy coastline which links the three adjacent coastal localities (from north to south): Mission Beach (sometimes called North Mission Beach), Wongaling Beach, and South Mission Beach.
Most of the residential development is along the eastern coastal strip of the locality with the town centre on the coast in the south-east of the locality. The western part of the locality is undeveloped tropical forests.
Dunk Island lies off the southern coast of Wongaling Beach.
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