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Far North Queensland lays claim to over 70 national parks, including Mount Bartle Frere; with a peak of 1,622 metres (5,322 ft) it is the highest peak in both Northern Australia and Queensland. The Far North region is the only region of Australia that is the indigenous country of both Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders.
One of the oldest living cultures, [4] dating back to the earliest human occupation of the continent around 50,000 years ago, [5] the Kuku Yalanji began to have their homeland occupied extensively by European colonisers in 1877, after the Australian government opened up this area to selection, [6] and as miners crowded into the area, where the Palmer River Gold Rush had been underway since ...
Such regions in Queensland include: Tropical Queensland – the area of the state north of latitude 23.5 degrees South. Tropical North Queensland – an area of tropical Queensland that usually includes Far North Queensland, and sometimes also North Queensland. The Outback – refers generally to Australian arid inland regions.
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North Queensland or the Northern Region is the northern part of the Australian state of Queensland that lies just south of Far North Queensland. Queensland is a massive state, larger than many countries, and its tropical northern part has been historically remote and undeveloped, resulting in a distinctive regional character and identity.