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The Shire of Douglas is a local government area in Far North Queensland.It is located on the coast north of the city of Cairns.The shire, administered from the town of Mossman, covers an area of 2,428 square kilometres (937.5 sq mi), [2] and existed as a local government entity from 1880 until 2008, when it was amalgamated with the City of Cairns to become the Cairns Region.
The former Mossman Shire Hall and Douglas Shire Council Chambers, constructed 1936–1937, is a substantial civic building that reflects the importance of the sugar industry to north Queensland during the interwar period and is associated with the ascendancy of Mossman as a commercial and administrative centre and the decline of Port Douglas as an early regional centre.
Port Douglas is a coastal town and locality in the Shire of Douglas, Queensland, Australia, [2] [3] approximately 60 km north of Cairns. In the 2021 census, the locality of Port Douglas had a population of 3,650 people. [1] The town's population can often double, however, with the influx of tourists during the peak tourism season from May to ...
The Collinsville mine disaster was the largest loss of life in a Queensland mine since the Mount Mulligan mine disaster in 1921. [264] Boating accident: Wilson Inlet, Western Australia: 7: 1911 Nov 5: Seven members of the same family drowned when a small yacht Little Wonder was hit by a squall. [265] Boating accident: Lake Hume, New South Wales ...
Yidinji (also known as Yidinj, Yidiny, and Idindji) is an Australian Aboriginal language and a traditional Indigenous country. Its traditional language region is within the local government areas of Cairns Region and Tablelands Region, in such localities as Cairns City (CBD), Gordonvale, and the Mulgrave River, and the southern part of the Atherton Tableland including Atherton and Kairi.
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Rocky Point State School opened on 23 February 1939. [7] The school was at 14 Rocky Point School Road (8] [9] In 1999, the school was relocated to Wonga Beach, about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) north of the original school, and renamed Wonga Beach State School.
The former Mulgrave Shire Council Chambers, originally named the Cairns Shire Offices, was constructed in 1912–1913, replacing an earlier timber structure. The building was designed by the North Queensland architectural partnership of Charles Lynch and Walter Hunt, a practice which had offices in Cairns and Townsville , as well as other ...