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Yarrabah
Yarrabah (traditionally ''Yagaljida'' in the Yidin language spoken by the indigenous Yidinji people is a coastal town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Aboriginal Shire of Yarrabah, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Yarrabah recorded a population of 2,559 people. Material was copied from this source, which is available under a creativecommons:by/4.0/, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. It is an Indigenous Australians, Aboriginal community. Geography The town is about by road from Cairns CBD on Cape Grafton. It is by direct-line distance, but is geographically separated from Cairns CBD by the Murray Prior Range and Trinity Inlet, an inlet of the Coral Sea. History Gunggay language, Gunggay (also known as Gunggandji, Kongandji, Kongkandji, Gungganyji, Idindji and Yidiny) is an Aboriginal language of Far North Queensland. The Gunggay language region of Cape Grafton includes the landscape within the local government boundar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aboriginal Shire Of Yarrabah
The Aboriginal Shire of Yarrabah is a special Local government in Australia, local government area in Far North Queensland, Queensland, Australia, east and southeast of Cairns, Queensland, Cairns on Cape Grafton. It is managed under a Deed of Grant in Trust under the ''Local Government (Community Government Areas) Act 2004''. History The area originally was set up as an Anglican Mission in 1892. Indigenous Australians, Aboriginal people from the region were gradually drawn or relocated from their traditional lands into the mission settlement. The Gungganydji people were the main group to be settled there. In the 1960s, the Anglican Church relinquished control of the mission. The Department of Aboriginal and Islander Affairs, a government department, under the Act continued running the affairs of the community. On 29 October 1987, under the ''Community Services (Aborigines) Act 1984'', a Deed of Grant in Trust was given to the Yarrabah community over the Cape Grafton area. Like ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Trinity, Queensland
East Trinity is a coastal locality in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. It was formerly known as Trinity East. In the , East Trinity had a population of 212 people. The town of Giangurra is on the northern coast of the locality (). Geography The locality of East Trinity has the locality of Glen Boughton enclosed within it. The northern boundary of East Trinity is the Coral Sea. The western boundary is Trinity Inlet. The south-western boundary is Pine Creek. The eastern boundary is the Murray Prior Range. Parts of the land, water and environment in and around East Trinity have been subject to acid sulfate soil oxidisation. Acid sulfate soil remediation has been implemented to fix the impacts of soil oxidisation to the land, water and environment in East Trinity. Mountains East Trinity has the following mountains, all of which are in the Murray Prior Range along the locality's eastern boundary (from north to south): * Mount Yarrabah () *Mount Murray Prior () ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Grafton
Cape Grafton is a cape located to the north-east of Cairns in Queensland, Australia. The cape was named by Lieutenant James Cook during his first voyage of discovery in 1770. It was named after Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, the British prime minister when Cook sailed. Cook set anchor two miles from the shore and briefly inspected the cape with botanists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander. The Aboriginal community of Yarrabah is located here. It was founded by John Gribble in 1892. The cape provides protection to an extensive population of mangroves in the south of Trinity Bay. History Gunggay (also known as Gunggandji, Kongandji, Kongkandji, Gungganyji, Idindji and Yidiny) is an Aboriginal language of Far North Queensland. The Gunggay language region of Cape Grafton includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Cairns Regional Council and Yarrabah Yarrabah (traditionally ''Yagaljida'' in the Yidin language spoken by the indigenous Yidinji ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Hill, Queensland
Green Hill is a rural locality in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Green Hill had a population of 159 people. Geography Pine Creek Yarrabah Road forms the western boundary of the locality, while the eastern boundary is formed by the ridgeline of the Malbon Thompson Range. The land in the west of the locality is lower-lying (10–50 metres above sea level) freehold land used for agriculture (predominantly sugarcane) and some rural residences. The land in the east of the locality is mountainous and undeveloped land rising rapidly from above sea level to the mountain ridge on the eastern boundary, where the highest peak is Grey Peaks in the south-east of the locality in the Malbon Thompson Range () at above sea level. The north-east of the locality is protected as the Malbon Thompson Forest Reserve, while the south-east of the locality is the Grey Peaks National Park. There are no access roads tand no public facilities in the Grey Peaks National Park. Due to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Gribble
Ernest Richard Bulmer Gribble (23 November 186818 October 1957) was an Australian missionary. Though considered to be temperamentally unsuited to his vocation, he became a strong advocate for better treatment of Australian Aboriginal people, saving whose 'remnants' he considered part of his mission. Early life He was born at Chilwell in Geelong in 1868, the son of John Brown Gribble and Mary Gribble (), and the eldest of nine children. His father was a Methodist and then Congregational Union, and finally Anglican missionary who, disturbed by the systematic injustices visited on Aboriginal people as he had observed them in Jerilderie and elsewhere, wrote ''A Plea for the Aborigines of New South Wales'', and established the Warangesda Mission on the Murrumbidgee river (1880). Ernest showed less than mediocre academic abilities during his schooling at The King's School, Parramatta, despite excelling in sports. Dissuaded from following a military career, he joined his father in a sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yidinji People
The Yidiny (also spelt Yidindj, Yidinji or Yidiñ), are an Aboriginal Australian people in Far North Queensland. Their language is the Yidiny language. Language The last fluent speakers of Yidiny were Tilly Fuller (d. October 1974), George Davis (b.1919), Dick Moses (b.1898) and his sister Ida Burnett of White Rock. A substantial part of the language has been analysed and recorded by Robert M. W. Dixon. Country The Yidiny lands were in lowland rainforest areas, stretching from Yarrabah down to the south, where their borders met those of the Ngajanji and the Wanyurr. To their north were the coastal Djabugay people. In Norman Tindale's calculation, the Yidiny tribal lands were estimated to cover some . These included the areas of Deeral north to Gordonvale and Cairns. Their inland extension ran as far as Lake Barrine. Their eastern boundary was on the crest of the Prior Range. Today, there are four Traditional Owner groups representing the peoples of the Cairns region. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aloomba, Queensland
Aloomba is a town and a locality in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Aloomba had a population of 529 people. Geography Aloomba is a long thin locality hemmed in east and west by mountain ranges. It is bounded to the north by the Mulgrave River which then passes through the west of the locality. The Bruce Highway passes through the west of the locality but not through the town which is about east of the highway but about away by road. The North Coast railway line enters the locality from the south immediately to the west of the highway but then veers to the east in order to pass through the town, after which the railway veers back towards the highway but does not rejoin it within the locality. The mountainous western part of the locality is within the Malbon Thompson Forest Reserve. The remainder is relatively flat freehold land used predominantly for farming, particularly growing sugarcane. There is a network of cane tramways to deliver the harvested sugarcan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Far North Queensland
Far North Queensland (FNQ) is the northernmost part of the Australian state of Queensland. Its largest city is Cairns and it is dominated geographically by Cape York Peninsula, which stretches north to the Torres Strait, and west to the Gulf Country. The waters of Torres Strait include the only international border in the area contiguous with the Australian mainland, between Australia and Papua New Guinea. The region is home to three World Heritage Sites, the Great Barrier Reef, the Wet Tropics of Queensland and Riversleigh, Australia's largest fossil mammal site. Far North Queensland lays claim to over 70 national parks, including Mount Bartle Frere; with a peak of 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. Far North Queensland supports a significant agricultural sector, a number of significant mines and is h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deeral, Queensland
Deeral is a town and coastal locality in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Deeral had a population of 141 people. Geography Deeral has an unusual "J"-shape boundaries. The eastern part is a long section of beach facing the Coral Sea and its immediate hinterland; this land is undeveloped and controlled by the Queensland Government. The western part is a curved section of freehold land, cleared and used for farming especially sugarcane. Both of these areas are low-lying (less than 10 metres above sea level). In the very far west of the locality the land begins rises rapidly towards the adjacent Bellenden Ker Range in neighbouring Wooroonooran; this land is undeveloped. The town is located in the south-western part of the locality. The Bruce Highway and the North Coast railway line traverse the locality, adjacent and parallel, from the south-west of the locality through to the north-west of the "curve of the J", passing through the town, which is served by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairns Regional Council
The Cairns Region is a local government area in Far North Queensland, Queensland, Australia, centred on the regional city of Cairns. It was established in 2008 by the amalgamation of the City of Cairns and the Shires of Douglas and Mulgrave. However, following public protest and a referendum in 2013, on 1 January 2014, the Shire of Douglas was de-amalgamated from the Cairns Region and re-established as a separate local government authority. The Cairns Regional Council has an estimated operating budget of A$300 million. History First Nations '' 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. '' Tjapukai'' (also known as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglican Church Of Australia
The Anglican Church of Australia, formerly known as the Church of England in Australia and Tasmania, is a Christian church in Australia and an autonomous church of the Anglican Communion. It is the second largest church in Australia after the Roman Catholic Church. According to the 2016 census, 3.1 million Australians identify as Anglicans. , the Anglican Church of Australia had more than 3 million nominal members and 437,880 active baptised members. For much of Australian history the church was the largest religious denomination. It remains today one of the largest providers of social welfare services in Australia. On 16 August 2022 the Anglican Church saw a split: with Conservatives forming an Australian breakaway church Diocese of the Southern Cross. It is to be led by former Archbishop of Sydney Glenn Davies. The split was coursed over the position on same sex marriage among other issues. History When the First Fleet was sent to New South Wales in 1787, Richard Johns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
