Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Australia
Detourmap lists 859 places in Australia, across 2 kinds of detour; nature & landscapes are the largest group (746). Best known: Uluru. 688 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 859
- Oldest here
- Cooks' Cottage 1755
- Little known
- 688 of 859
- City pages
- 3
By region
7 first-level divisions of Australia have enough places for a page of their own.
By city
3 cities in Australia have enough places for a page of their own.
Nature & landscapes in Australia 746
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2.Mount Kosciuszko
Nature · Iconic
Highest mountain in the mainland of the Australian continent, located on New South Wales–Victoria border
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3.Gulf of Carpentaria
Nature · Iconic
Large, shallow sea enclosed on three sides by northern Australia and bounded on the north by the Arafura Sea
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4.Lord Howe Island
Nature · Iconic
Island in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, part of New South Wales
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6.Great Australian Bight
Nature · Renowned
Oceanic bight off the central and western portions of the southern coastline of mainland Australia
Archaeological & historic sites in Australia 113
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1.Batavia
Archaeological · Notable
Ship wrecked in 1629 on Houtman Abrolhos with at least 110 men, women and children being murdered during subsequent mutiny
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4.German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran
Archaeological · Notable
Ship scuttled off the coast of Western Australia after battle with HMAS Sydney during the second World War
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Australia?
Uluru. Large sandstone isolated mount in Australia. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Australia?
859: 746 nature & landscapes and 113 archaeological & historic sites. 688 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Australia?
Cooks' Cottage, dated to 1755. 286 of the 859 places here carry a founding date at all.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.