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Quarantine Bay - QLD

Quarantine Bay

Bay,Inlet,Cove

Position

DEG: -15.49169 145.274902

DMS: 15º 29' 30.08" S 145º 16' 29.65" E

UTM: 55 L 8286545mN 314946mE

Altitude: 9m

Address & Contact

11 The Esplanade
Cooktown QLD 4895

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Information

Quarantine Bay is located 8 km by road from Cooktown and 4 km off the Cooktown Road. It is a 1 km long, north-east facing beach, lying in lee of the densely vegetated 100 m high Monkhouse Point, that protrudes 1 km seaward of the southern end of the beach.
The point together with Mount Cook, which rises 415 m in lee of the beach, surround the beach with steep, tropical slopes. A road crosses a saddle toward the southern end, giving good access to the beach and a few beach houses that back the central and northern section of the beach.
There are no facilities.The beach is backed by dense vegetation. It has a steeper high tide beach that contains a mixture of sand and gravel, while at low tide a low gradient bar grades into wide tidal shoals toward the southern half. Polished granite boulders dot the beach, while the granite rocks of the headlands fringe each end.

PlaceID	121995

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Ayton to Cooktown

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Weather

Closest Weather Station

Cooktown at 02/12:30am EST

Distance from Quarantine Bay 10.78km NW

Temperature	Feels Like	Rel. Humidity	Dew Point	Pressure	Rainfall	Wind Direction	Wind Speed	Gusts
25.9°C	27.1°C	80%	22.2°C	1013.7hPa	0.0mm	SE	19km/hr 10knots	32km/hr 17knots

Closest Climatic Station

Cooktown Airport

Distance from Quarantine Bay 10.78km NW

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Mean Max. °C	31.8	31.6	30.4	29.1	27.7	26.7	26.1	27.0	28.8	30.4	31.5	32.2
Mean Min. °C	24.3	24.3	23.8	22.9	20.7	19.4	17.7	18.2	20.9	22.6	23.8	24.5
Mean Rain mm	280.3	295.7	390.8	156.7	36.6	28.5	21.8	17.6	7.2	24.6	71.0	154.0