Campwin Beach is a coastal town and rural

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in the

Mackay Region The Mackay Region is a local government area located in North Queensland, Queensland, Australia. Established in 2008, it was preceded by three previous local government areas with modern histories extending back as far as 1869. It has an estima ...

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, Australia. In the , Campwin Beach had a population of 517 people.

Geography

The J-shaped locality is bounded by the

Coral Sea The Coral Sea () is a marginal sea of the South Pacific off the northeast coast of Australia, and classified as an interim Australian bioregion. The Coral Sea extends down the Australian northeast coast. Most of it is protected by the Fre ...

to the east, the Castrades Inlet () to the north-west, and loosely by an unnamed creek to the west. The headland in the north-east has Coral Point () as its northernmost point. The headland area has a rocky coast with Coral Point Reef () just off the north-east coast of the locality. Campwin Beach is a sand beach to the south of the rocky headland () and is accessible to the public via Campwin Esplanade. The north-east of the locality is residential (the town) while the southern part is occupied by the Campwin Beach Prawn Farm (). Much of land alongside Castrades Inlet is marshland and undeveloped ().

History

The original owners of the land were businessman James Campbell and William Winter and the town name is a combination of their surnames. The town was officially named and bounded on 30 January 2009, but name was in use earlier since at least 1930. In the , Campwin Beach had a population of 517 people.

Economy

The Campwin Bay prawn farm typically yields of prawns each year, which are cooked on site and auctioned through the Sydney Fish Market.

Amenities

There is a boat ramp into the Castrades Inlet at the end of Campwin Beach Boat Ramp Road ().

Education

There are no schools in the locality. The nearest primary school is Alligator Creek State School at Alligator Creek to the north-west. The nearest secondary school is

Sarina State High School Sarina State High School is located in the small rural town of Sarina, Queensland, Australia. The school had 600 students in 2013 with a reported 20 percent continuing studies at University. Sarina State High previously boasted a marine aquarium ...

Sarina Sarina is a rural town and coastal locality in the Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Sarina had a population of 5,522 people. Geography Sarina lies just inland of the east coast of Queensland, south of the city of Mackay, and a ...

to the south-west.

References

External links

Town map of Campwin Beach, 1980
{{authority control Towns in Queensland Mackay Region Coastline of Queensland Localities in Queensland