Cornish Creek is a former rural

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in the

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, Australia. In the , Cornish Creek had a population of 16 people. On 22 November 2019 the

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decided to amalgamate the localities in the Barcaldine Region, resulting in five expanded localities based on the larger towns:

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, Aramac, Barcaldine,

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and

Muttaburra Muttaburra is an outback town and locality in the Barcaldine Region, Queensland, Australia. Muttaburra was the discovery site of the ''Muttaburrasaurus'', one of Australia's most famous dinosaurs. Geography Muttaburra is in the central west ...

. Most of Cornish Creek was incorporated into Muttaburra, except for a small part of eastern Cornish Creek which was incorporated into Aramac.

Geography

The Thomson River forms the south-western boundary of the locality. Cornish Creek flows through the locality from east ( Upper Cornish Creek) to west ( Tablederry) where it becomes a tributary to the Thomson River. All watercourses in the locality flow into the

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. The Muttaburra Aramac Road enters the locality from the west (

) and passes through the locality exiting to the south (

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). Crossmore Road enters the locality from the south-west (Muttaburra) and has its junction with the Muttaburra Aramac Road within the locality. The principal land use is

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History

Cornish Creek is part of the traditional tribal lands of the

Iningai The Iningai (Yiningayi) were an indigenous Australian people of the present-day Longreach Region in the state of Queensland. Country The Iningai lay to the west of the Great Dividing Range as far as the Forsyth Range, Maneroo Creek, and Longreac ...

(also known as Yiningay, Muttaburra, Tateburra, Yinangay, Yinangi) is an

Australian Aboriginal language The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum of around 250 (using the technical definition of 'language' as non-mutually intellig ...

spoken by the Iningai people. The Iningai language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the

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and

, particularly the towns of

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, Barcaldine,

and Aramac as well as the properties of Bowen Downs and catchments of Cornish Creek and Alice River. The locality is named after the creek, which was in turn named in 1860 by explorer

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after his business partner Edward Cornish.

Heritage listings

Cornish Creek has a number of

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sites, including: * Mount Cornish Homestead

Education

The nearest primary schools are in Muttaburra and Aramac. The nearest secondary schools are in Aramac (to Year 10 only) and in Winton,

and Barcaldine (all to Year 12).

References

{{Barcaldine Region Barcaldine Region Unbounded localities in Queensland