Kendall County is a

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located at on the

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in remote far north of Queensland, Australia.

History

The county is probably named for the Kendall River, which flows in the area and was named by

Francis Lascelles Jardine Francis Lascelles (Frank) Jardine (28 August 1841 – 19 March 1919) was a Scottish-Australian pioneer who was at the forefront of British colonisation and Aboriginal dispossession in the Cape York Peninsula and Torres Strait regions of Far ...

(1841–1919) pastoralist and Alexander William Jardine (1843–1920) pastoralist and engineer, on 31 December 1867, after a friend of Archibald John Richardson (1837–1900) surveyor, who accompanied them in 1863. There is an unsupported possibility that this friend was

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Thomas Henry Kendall (1839–1882). The county was created by Queensland's Governor in Council 7 March 1901 under provisions of the Land Act 1897. The county came into existence in the 19th century, but on 8 March 1901, when the

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issued a proclamation legally dividing Queensland into counties under the Land Act 1897. Like all counties in Queensland, it is a non-functional administrative unit, that is used mainly for the purpose of registering land titles. From 30 November 2015, the government no longer referenced counties and parishes in land information systems however the

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retains a record for historical purposes. The county is divided into civil parishes.

References

{{reflist Counties of Queensland