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Flying Fish Cove

Flying Fish Cove is the capital city and main settlement of Christmas Island.

Flying Fish Cove
Flying Fish Cove · Александр Байдуков (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The place

Flying Fish Cove is the capital city and main settlement of Christmas Island. Although it was originally named after the British survey-ship Flying Fish, many maps simply label it "The Settlement". It was the first British settlement on the island, established in 1888.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Flying Fish Cove

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Administrator's House, Christmas Island

    The Administrator's House is a heritage-listed former official residence and now museum located 1.5 kilometres south-west of Flying Fish Cove in the Australian territory of Christmas Island. It was added to the Australian Commonwealth Heritage List on 22 June 2004.

    900 m · residence and museum in Christmas Island, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bungalow 702

    Bungalow 702 is a heritage-listed house at Lam Lok Loh, Drumsite, Christmas Island, Australia. It was added to the Australian Commonwealth Heritage List on 22 June 2004.

    600 m · Australian heritage-listed house in Drumsite, Christmas Island · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Flying Fish Cove

Stations
Christmas Island Airport, 3.3 km
  • Jakarta → Flying Fish Cove
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Yogyakarta → Flying Fish Cove
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Semarang → Flying Fish Cove
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Flying Fish Cove

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Flying Fish Cove. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Nusa PenidaID

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    1,097 km
  2. 02
    Gili IslandsID

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    1,163 km
  3. 03
    Tanjung Pinang and BintanID

    9 ways of moving, 49 sources

    1,269 km
  4. 04
    Tanjung Balai KarimunID

    11 ways of moving, 14 sources

    1,301 km
  5. 05
    SelatpanjangID

    7 ways of moving, 12 sources

    1,312 km

If you know how people move in Flying Fish Cove – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Flying Fish Cove