Etna Creek is a rural

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in the

Livingstone Shire The Shire of Livingstone is a local government area located in the Capricornia region of Central Queensland, Queensland, Australia, to the immediate north and east of the regional city of Rockhampton. The shire, administered from the coastal ...

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, Australia. In the Etna Creek had a population of 792 people.

Geography

South Yaamba is a town () in the north-east of locality. The town of South Yaamba is not to be confused with the ''locality'' of South Yaamba, which is adjacent and to the west of the locality of Etna Creek. The locality of South Yaamba is physically separated from the town of South Yaamba and the locality of Etna Creek by the Fitzroy River. The North Coast railway line enters the locality from the south (

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) and exits to the north ( The Caves). Etna Creek railway station is an abandoned railway station on the line ().

History

The locality takes its name from the Etna Creek railway station, which was assigned by the

Queensland Railways Department Queensland Rail (QR) is a railway operator in Queensland, Australia. Owned by the Queensland Government, it operates local and long-distance passenger services, as well as owning and maintaining approximately 6,600 kilometres of track and relate ...

on 23 July 1914. South Yaamba takes its name from the pastoral run name given by pastoralist Peter Fitzallan MacDonald in the 1860s. ''Yaamba'' is believed to be an Aboriginal word meaning ''main camping ground''. Etna Creek Provisional School opened on 31 October 1892. On 1 January 1909 it became Etna Creek State School. It closed in 1950. In the Etna Creek had a population of 792 people.

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* {{Shire of Livingstone Shire of Livingstone Localities in Queensland