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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 1,239 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 neighbouring Ngajanji peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peeramon, Queensland
Peeramon is a rural town and locality in the Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Peeramon had a population of 628 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 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 name was assigned by the Queensland Railways Department on ... [...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. The principal river flowing across the plateau is the Barron River. It was dammed to form an irrigation reservoir named Lake Tinaroo. Tinaroo Hydro, a small 1.6 MW hydroelectric power station, is located near the spillway. Physiography This area is a distinct 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 About 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 the continental crust. As the eastern part of the continent broke away, it gradually sank below sea level. Since that time, the up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngatjan People
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 8 groups, the others being Yidin, Mamu, Dyirbal, Girramay, Warrgamay, Waruŋu 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 speci ... [...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 with a central ogee spillway across the 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, and recreation. Completed between 1953 and 1958, the dam creates the impounded reservoir, Lake Tinaroo. Location and features In 1952, the Tinaroo Dam and Mareeba-Dimbulah Irrigation Scheme was approved by the Queensland Government. Construction on the dam was started in 1953 and completed in 1958, at a cost of 12.666 million. When the dam was filled in 1959, the old township of Kulara near Yungaburra went underwater, and all of the residents relocated to Yungaburra and surrounding towns. The area around Kulara was among the last to flood when the dam filled. Earlier the area of Danbulla, located on Robson's Creek - which also feeds into the la ... [...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 8 groups, the others being Yidin, Mamu, Dyirbal, Girramay, Warrgamay, Waruŋu 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 speci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tablelands Region
The Tablelands Region is a local government area in Far North Queensland, Australia inland from the city of 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. History '' Yidinji'' (also known as ''Yidinj'', ''Yidiny'', and ''Idindji'') is an 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, and the Mulgrave River, and the southern part of the Atherton Tableland including Atherton and Kairi. Prior to the 2008 amalgamation, the Tablelands Region consisted the entire area of four previous local government areas: * the Shire of Atherton; * the Shire of Eacham; * the Shire of Herberton; a ... [...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 152 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 lake and surrounding area is part of the Crater Lakes National Park. The rest of the locality is used for farming. 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 lake led to the establishment of a scenic reserve in 1888 to protect the trees. In 1920, George and Margaret Curry established a tourism business with lake cruises and a tea house. The completion of the Cairns Range Road (now known as the Gillies Highway) from Gordonvale to Atherton in 1926 provided much better access to the area for tourists. In 1934, the Queensland ... [...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 457 people. History 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''. Lake Eacham State School opened on 1911. In 1919 it was renamed Peeramon State School. It closed on 1959. Education There are no schools in Lake Eacham. The nearest primary schools are in Yungaburra Yungaburra is a rural town and locality in the Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Yungaburra had a population of 1,239 people. Geography Yungaburra is on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland. The lan ..., Malanda, and Butchers Creek. The nearest secondary school is in Malanda. References {{Tablelands Region Tablelands Region Localities in Queensland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Quincan
Mount Quincan is a volcanic mountain near 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 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 Scoria is a pyroclastic, highly vesicular, dark-colored volcanic rock that was ejected from a volcano as a molten blob and cooled in the air to form discrete grains or clasts.Neuendorf, K.K.E., J.P. Mehl, Jr., and J.A. Jackson, eds. (2005) ''G ..., is mined from the south west quadrant of the mountain. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barrine, Queensland
Barrine is a rural locality in the Tablelands Region, Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_ ..., Australia. In the , Barrine had a population of 241 people. History Boar Pocket State School opened in 1909. In 1912 it was renamed Barrine State School. It closed in 1958. In the , Barrine had a population of 241 people. References Tablelands Region Localities in Queensland {{Queensland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Barron, Queensland
East Barron is a rural locality in the Tablelands Region, Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_ ..., Australia. In the East Barron had a population of 234 people. History East Barron State School opened on 28 April 2015 and closed on 1964. In the East Barron had a population of 234 people. References Tablelands Region Localities in Queensland {{Queensland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairns, Queensland
Cairns (, ) is a city in Queensland, Australia, on the tropical north east coast of Far North Queensland. The population in June 2019 was 153,952, having grown on average 1.02% annually over the preceding five years. The city is the 5th-most-populous in Queensland, and 15th in Australia. The city was founded in 1876 and named after Sir William Wellington Cairns, following the discovery of gold in the Hodgkinson river. Throughout the late 19th century, Cairns prospered from the settlement of Chinese immigrants who helped develop the region's agriculture. Cairns also served as a port for blackbirding ships, bringing slaves and indentured labourers to the sugar plantations of Innisfail. During World War II, the city became a staging ground for the Allied Forces in the Battle of the Coral Sea. By the late 20th century the city had become a centre of international tourism, and in the early 21st century has developed into a major metropolitan city. Cairns is a popular tourist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
