Jerona is a rural town and coastal
locality
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* Locality (linguistics)
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in the
Shire of Burdekin
The Shire of Burdekin is a local government area located in North Queensland, Australia in the Dry Tropics region. The district is located between Townsville and Bowen in the delta of the Burdekin River.
It covers an area of , and has exist ...
,
Queensland
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, 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
, establishe ...
, Australia.
In the , the locality of Jerona had a population of 40 people.
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Geography
The town of Jerona is on the western side of the estuary of Barratta Creek on the northern coast of the locality. Most of the locality is within the Bowling Green Bay National Park
Bowling Green Bay is a national park in the City of Townsville and Shire of Burdekin, Queensland, Australia, 1,103 km northwest of Brisbane, and 28 km south of Townsville and 59 km north of Ayr. It is a Ramsar Convention listed sit ...
, except for the town and a small area on the eastern boundary of the locality.
History
The area was originally a cattle grazing property known as Jerona and Soulbourne holdings held by Lorenzo Fabrellas. In 1942, the Queensland Government
The Queensland Government is the democratic administrative authority of the Australian state of Queensland. The Government of Queensland, a parliamentary constitutional monarchy was formed in 1859 as prescribed in its Constitution, as amended f ...
offered it as two parcels of leasehold land, consisting of and .
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Towns in Queensland
Shire of Burdekin
Coastline of Queensland
Localities in Queensland