Cable Beach
Twenty-two kilometres of white sand on the Indian Ocean at Broome, named after the telegraph cable laid from here to Java in 1889. Low red ochre cliffs rise behind the wide, flat beach, and camel trains walk the shore at sunset.
- Where
- Broome, Western Australia, Australia
- Grade
- Local gem
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site
- Coordinates
- -17.9513, 122.2020
Get the Cable Beach stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Cable Beach. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Western Australia volume with your photos and a note.
Near Cable Beach
Karijini National Park 650 km
A national park in the Hamersley Range of the Pilbara, more than 1,000 kilometres north of Perth, known until 1991 as Hamersley Range National Park. Deep, narrow gorges of red banded rock hide waterfalls and pools such as Fern Pool and Fortescue Falls.
Purnululu National Park 674 km
A remote World Heritage park in the East Kimberley, about 300 kilometres south of Kununurra. It holds the Bungle Bungle Range, beehive-shaped domes of sandstone banded in orange and black that rise 250 metres above the savannah.
Sumba 945 km
An island of about 10,900 square kilometres in eastern Indonesia, roughly the size of Jamaica. Its villages keep tall-roofed clan houses and great stone tombs, and in the west it holds the Pasola, a mock battle fought on horseback.
Kelimutu 1,022 km
A volcano in central Flores, about 50 kilometres east of Ende, crowned by three crater lakes of different colours. The lakes shift between blue, green, red and black as the chemistry of the volcano changes, and local belief holds them to be resting places of souls.
Ningaloo Reef 1,040 km
Australia's largest fringing coral reef, running 260 kilometres along the north-west coast and lying so close to land that you can swim out to it from the beach. Whale sharks gather here each year, and the coast is a World Heritage Site about 1,200 kilometres north of Perth.
Wae Rebo 1,042 km
A Manggarai village 1,200 metres up in the mountains of western Flores, reached on foot through the forest. Its seven cone-shaped mbaru niang houses, thatched to the ground, won a UNESCO Asia Pacific heritage conservation award in 2012.
Liang Bua 1,064 km
A limestone cave just north of Ruteng in western Flores, first explored by the Dutch missionary and archaeologist Theodor Verhoeven. In 2003 it yielded the bones of Homo floresiensis, the small extinct human nicknamed the hobbit.
Litchfield National Park 1,064 km
About 1,500 square kilometres of bush near Batchelor, 100 kilometres south-west of Darwin, known for its waterfalls and swimming holes. Florence, Wangi and Tolmer Falls drop off the sandstone plateau, and fields of magnetic termite mounds stand aligned north to south.
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Questions
Where is Cable Beach?
Cable Beach is in Broome, Western Australia, Australia. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Karijini National Park (650 km), Purnululu National Park (674 km), Sumba (945 km).
How do I get the Cable Beach stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Cable Beach and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Western Australia volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Cable Beach before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Western Australia volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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