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

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.
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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.
- 01Administrator'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 - 02Bungalow 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
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Getting to Flying Fish Cove
- Stations
- Christmas Island Airport, 3.3 km
- Jakarta → Flying Fish CoveTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Yogyakarta → Flying Fish CoveTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Semarang → Flying Fish CoveTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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.
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If you know how people move in Flying Fish Cove – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Flying Fish Cove
- Silver City, Christmas Islandhuman settlement in Australia1.4 km
- Poon Saanhuman settlement in Christmas Island, Australia1.4 km
- Drumsitesettlement on Christmas Island600 m