Degarra is a rural coastal

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in the

Shire of Douglas The Shire of Douglas is a Local government in Australia, local government area in Far North Queensland. It is located on the coast north of the city of Cairns, Queensland, Cairns. The shire, administered from the town of Mossman, Queensland, Mos ...

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, Australia. In the , Degarra had a population of 80 people.

Geography

The locality is bounded to the north by the

Bloomfield River The Bloomfield River is a river in the Wet Tropics of Far North Queensland, Australia, noted for its Bloomfield River cod fish species, found only in the river. Course and features The river rises in the Great Dividing Range below Zig Zag and ...

. There are a number of islands in the Bloomfield River. One of the named islands is Spit Island (). It is . Scrub Island is an island in the Woobadda River, a tributary of the Bloomfield River. The island is just prior to their confluence (). It is island. There are a number of other unnamed islands in the Bloomfield River. The locality is shaped like a dumbbell with two discontiguous areas of land connected by a short section of the Bloomfield River, creating a distinct east and west separation within the locality. The land use in the west of the locality is predominantly

grazing In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to free range (roam around) and consume wild vegetations in order to feed conversion ratio, convert the otherwise indigestible (by human diges ...

on native vegetation with some residential housing near the river. The land use in the east of the locality is relatively undeveloped with some pockets of housing along the rivers. The easternmost point of the locality is at the mouth of Bloomfield River where it flows into the

Coral Sea The Coral Sea () is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean, South Pacific off the northeast coast of Australia, and classified as an Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia, interim Australian bioregion. The Coral Sea extends down t ...

, giving the locality a small coastal boundary.

Demographics

In the , Degarra had a population of 110 people. In the , Degarra had a population of 80 people.

Education

There are no schools in Degarra. The nearest government primary school is Bloomfield River State School in neighbouring Bloomfield to the north. There are no secondary schools nearby; the alternatives are

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and boarding school.

References

{{Shire of Douglas Shire of Douglas Localities in Queensland