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Yungaburra
Yungaburra is a rural town and locality in the Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Yungaburra had a population of 1,272 people. Geography Yungaburra is on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland. The landscape around Yungaburra has been shaped by millennia of volcanic activity. The most recent eruptions were approximately 10,000 years ago. Notable geological features nearby include: * Seven Sisters and Mount Quincan are volcanic cones. * Lake Eacham (Yidyam) and Lake Barrine are lakes inside volcanic craters. * Mount Hypipamee Crater is a diatreme (crater). * Tinaroo Dam submerged the old town of Kulara is visible, on whose cricket-pitch, when drought conditions drastically lower the water-level, locals play cricket matches. History Prior to European settlement, the area around Yungaburra was inhabited by about sixteen different indigenous groups, among them the Ngatjan, with the custodians being Yidinji people and neighbourin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Barron, Queensland
East Barron is a rural locality in the Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , East Barron had a population of 278 people. Geography The Barron River forms most of the western boundary of the locality flowing into Lake Tinaroo (created by the Tinaroo Dam) which then forms the northern boundary of the locality. Peterson Creek, also flowing into Lake Tinaroo, forms the north-east boundary of the locality, while Gwynne Creek forms the south-western boundary of the locality, before crossing the locality to become a tributary of the Barron River. The elevation ranges from in the north of the locality near Lake Tinaroo to in the south of the locality. There is small chain of hills known as The Pinnacles in the north of the locality with heights up to . The Curtin Fig National Park and (despite the name) the Yungaburra National Park are in the east of the locality. Apart from these protected areas, the land is used for grazing on native vegetation and growing a variet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peeramon, Queensland
Peeramon is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Peeramon had a population of 778 people. Geography The locality is bounded to the east by Lake Barrine Road and to the south-east by the Johnstone River. There are a number of neighbourhoods in Peeramon (from north-west to south-east): * Chumbrumba (), taking its name from a railway station, named by the Queensland Railways Department on 25 April 1910, using an Aboriginal name for a forest near the railway station * Weerimba (), another railway station name from 14 October 1911, using an Aboriginal name for the Tooth-billed bowerbird, tooth billed bower bird * Tula (), another railway station named on 14 October 1911, using an Aboriginal name for a species of possum Mount Quincan () is in the north-west of the locality and rises to above sea level. History The town's name is an Aboriginal word, referring to a local hill. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barrine, Queensland
Barrine is a rural locality in the Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Barrine had a population of 303 people. History Boar Pocket State School opened in 1909. In 1912, it was renamed Barrine State School. It closed in 1958 with the filling of Lake Tinaroo. It was at approximately . In January 1911, residents of Kulara (then a small town to the north of Yungaburra) began lobbying for a school, claiming there were 42 children in the district. Kulara State School opened on 17 June 1912. It closed on 1 September 1958, when the Tinaroo Dam began to fill, inundating the town. However, being on higher ground, the school building was not flooded and became a private residence at 85 Backshall Road (now in Barrine, ). Demographics In the , Barrine had a population of 241 people. In the , Barrine had a population of 303 people. Education There are no schools in Barrine. The nearest government primary school is Yungaburra State School in neighbouring Yungaburra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Barrine, Queensland
Lake Barrine is a rural locality in the Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Lake Barrine had a population of 170 people. Geography The locality is on the Atherton Tableland. It takes its name from the lake of the same name in the west of the locality (), which in turn comes from the Aboriginal word "''barrang''", meaning ''big water''. The locality is bounded to west by Congo Creek. The lake and surrounding area is part of the Crater Lakes National Park. There is some rural residential housing in the south of the locality, with the land use in the rest of the locality being grazing on native vegetation. The Gillies Range Road (also known as Gillies Highway) enters the locality from the north-east ( Danbulla), passes west of the lake, and then exits the locality to the south-east (Yungaburra / Lake Eacham). History In the 1880s, there was logging of the rainforest timbers. However, concern about the potential loss of large kauri and cedar pines near the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atherton Tableland
The Atherton Tableland is a fertile plateau, which is part of the Great Dividing Range in Queensland, Australia. It has very deep, rich basaltic soils and the main industry is agriculture. The principal river flowing across the plateau is the Barron River (Australia), Barron River, which was dammed to form the irrigation reservoir named Lake Tinaroo. Unlike many other rural areas, the Tablelands is experiencing a significant growth in population. Physiography This area is a distinct physical geography, physiographic section of the larger North Queensland Highlands province, which in turn is part of the larger East Australian Cordillera physiographic division. South of the Tablelands is the Bellenden Ker Range. Geological history Around 100 million years ago, the eastern edge of the Australian continent extended much further to the east, before tectonic forces fractured the eastern margin, pulling it apart. At the same time, slowly rising mantle material caused a doming up of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tinaroo Dam
The Tinaroo Dam, officially the Tinaroo Falls Dam, is a major ungated concrete gravity dam, gravity dam with a Spillway#Types, central ogee spillway across the Barron River (Queensland), Barron River located on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland, Australia. The dam's purpose includes irrigation for the Mareeba-Dimbulah Irrigation Scheme, water supply, hydroelectricity generation, and recreation. Completed between 1953 and 1958, the dam creates the impounded reservoir, Lake Tinaroo. Location and features The dam is located close to Lake Barrine and Lake Eacham (Queensland), Lake Eacham (''Yidyam''). The dam wall, constructed with of concrete, is high and long. The maximum water depth is and at 100% capacity the dam wall impounds enough water from the Barron River to create a lake approximately 75% the size of Sydney Harbour with a capacity of of water at . The surface area of the Lake Tinaroo is and the catchment area is . The ungated, central ogee spillway i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngajanji
The Ngajanji, also written ''Ngadyan,'' and Ngadjon-Jii are an Indigenous Australian people of the rainforest region south of Cairns, in northern Queensland. They form one of eight groups, the others being Yidin, Mamu, Dyirbal, Girramay, Warrgamay, WaruĊu and Mbabaram, of the Dyirbal tribes. Ethnonym Ngajanji/Ngadyan was according to Robert M. W. Dixon, the name for the language spoken by a people whose proper tribal name was Ngadyandyi. Language The Ngajanji spoke ''Ngadyan'', a dialect of Dyirbal, and one showing the greatest differences with the others, particularly in phonology, where it displays vowel lengthening. A vowel followed by ''l'', ''r'' or ''y'' and a successive consonant would result in the lengthening of the vowel in question: thus ''gibar'' (large fig tree) in the other dialects became , and (meat) became . It also had a mother-in-law language (''Jalnay'') in which, when one's mother-in-law or her kin were around, one substituted standard words with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Eacham, Queensland
Lake Eacham is a rural locality in the Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Lake Eacham had a population of 459 people. Geography The locality is bounded to the west and south-west by Lake Barrine Road and to the south-east by Malanda Creek. The locality presumably takes its name from the waterbody Lake Eacham in the north-west of the locality (). The name of the lake is believed to be an Aboriginal word ''yeetcham'' meaning ''big spring''. The lake and its surrounds are within the Crater Lakes National Park. There is rural residential housing to the south and east of the national park. However, the predominant land use in the locality is grazing on native vegetation. History The land in the area was surveyed in 1886 with farm lots being offered for sale in 1889. Lake Eacham State School opened on 1911. It was built by the Sydes Brothers, who were chosen from the tenders called in September 1910. A teacher's residence was built in 1917. In 1919, it was r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tablelands Region
The Tablelands Region is a Local government in Australia, local government area in Far North Queensland, Australia inland from the city of Cairns, Queensland, Cairns. Established in 2008, it was preceded by four previous local government areas which dated back more than a century. On 1 January 2014, one of those local government areas, the Shire of Mareeba, was re-established independent of the Tablelands Region. It has an estimated operating budget of A$62.2 million. In the , the Tablelands Region had a population of 26,244 people. History ''Yidiny language, Yidinji'' (also known as ''Yidinj'', ''Yidiny'', and ''Idindji'') is an Australian Aboriginal languages, Australian Aboriginal language. Its traditional language region is within the local government areas of Cairns Region and Tablelands Region, in such localities as Cairns, Gordonvale, Queensland, Gordonvale, and the Mulgrave River, and the southern part of the Atherton Tableland including Atherton, Queensland, Atherto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Quincan
Mount Quincan is a Volcano, volcanic mountain near Yungaburra, Queensland, Yungaburra on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland, Australia. The extinct volcano is one of many cinder cones in the Atherton Tableland region. Its crater is approximately 500 m across, with the main cone being to the northwest. Several of the nearby Seven Sisters (Queensland), Seven Sisters cinder cones also have their craters to the southeast, which is possibly due to the ash and scoria being blown to the northwest by the prevailing SE winds. Swamp deposits within the crater were dated at 7250 years old, making that the minimum age for Mt Quincan. The scoria deposits also contain abundant mantle xenoliths of peridotite. Quincan, a type of Scoria, is mined from the south west quadrant of the mountain. Retrieved on 21 November 2012. Quincan is used in roa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
