Lakeland is a rural town and

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in the

Shire of Cook The Shire of Cook (The Shire) is a local government area in Far North Queensland, Australia. The Shire covers most of the eastern and central parts of Cape York Peninsula, the most northerly section of the Australian mainland. It covers an area ...

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, Australia. In the , the locality of Lakeland had a population of 299 people.

Geography

Lakeland is a small farming centre on the

Cape York Peninsula Cape York Peninsula is a large peninsula located in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is the largest unspoiled wilderness in northern Australia.Mittermeier, R.E. et al. (2002). Wilderness: Earth’s last wild places. Mexico City: Agrupación ...

. It is at the junction of the main

Peninsula Developmental Road The Peninsula Developmental Road (PDR) runs from Lakeland to Weipa. It is the main road transport link within Cape York Peninsula and to the rest of the Australian mainland. The segment from Weipa Town to south of the town is within the Rio ...

(which is paved all the way from

Cairns Cairns (, ) is a city in Queensland, Australia, on the tropical north east coast of Far North Queensland. The population in June 2019 was 153,952, having grown on average 1.02% annually over the preceding five years. The city is the 5th-most-p ...

to Lakeland), and the

Mulligan Highway The Mulligan Highway is a state highway in Queensland, Australia. It runs for approximately 266 km between Mareeba and Cooktown, on the east coast of Cape York Peninsula Cape York Peninsula is a large peninsula located in Far North Q ...

(formerly the Cooktown Developmental Road). Lakeland has the following mountains: * Belle View Peak () * Hamilton Peak () * Macdonalds Hill () * Mount Amy () * Mount Byerley () * Mount Earl () * Mount Emily () * Mount Eykin () * Mount Fahey () * Mount Gibson () * Mount Herman () * Mount Janet () * Mount Lukin () * Mount Macdonald () * Mount Mccormack () * Mount Mclean () * Mount Murray () * Mount Pike () * Mount Scatterbrain () * Mount Sellheim () * North Sampson Mountain () * Racecourse Mountain () * Shields Sugarloaf () * Tandewarrah () * The Brothers () * The Twins () * Three Peaks () * Zillman Peak ()

History

The village is named for William Lakeland who was one of the earliest prospectors of Cape York Peninsula. Lakeland State School opened on 23 August 1969. In the , the locality of Lakeland had a population of 227 people. In the , the locality of Lakeland had a population of 299 people.

Heritage listings

Lakeland has a number of

heritage-listed This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and man-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded. In many i ...

sites, including: * Mareeba Mining District (): Nuggety Gully Water Race and Chinese Camp

Economy

The main products are bananas and cattle.

Education

Lakeland State School is a government primary (Early Childhood-6) school for boys and girls on the corner of Peninsula Developmental Road and the Mulligan Highway (). In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 17 students with 2 teachers and 4 non-teaching staff (2 full-time equivalent). There is no secondary school in Lakeland. The nearest government secondary school is Cooktown State School in

Cooktown Cooktown is a coastal town and locality in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. Cooktown is at the mouth of the Endeavour River, on Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland where James Cook beached his ship, the Endeavour, for re ...

to the north-east. Given the distances involved,

distance education Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at a school, or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time and distance. Traditionally, this usually in ...

and boarding school are other options.

Amenities

Lakeland has a hotel, a cafe, and roadhouse and a hardware store.

Attractions

James Earl Lookout is off the Mulligan Highway, SSE of the town ().

References

*Trezise, P.J. 1969. ''Quinkan Country: Adventures in Search of Aboriginal Cave Paintings in Cape York''. A.H. & A.W. Reed, Sydney. *Trezise, Percy. 1973. ''Last Days of a Wilderness''. William Collins (Aust) Ltd., Brisbane. . *Trezise, P.J. 1993. ''Dream Road: A Journey of Discovery.'' Allen & Unwin, St. Leonards, Sydney. *Premier's Department (prepared by Connell Wagner). 1989. ''Cape York Peninsula Resource Analysis''. Cairns. (1989). *Roth, W.E. 1897. ''The Queensland Aborigines''. 3 Vols. Reprint: Facsimile Edition, Hesperian Press, Victoria Park, W.A., 1984. *Ryan, Michelle and Burwell, Colin, eds. 2000. ''Wildlife of Tropical North Queensland: Cooktown to Mackay''. Queensland Museum, Brisbane. (set of 3 vols). *Scarth-Johnson, Vera. 2000. ''National Treasures: Flowering plants of Cooktown and Northern Australia''. Vera Scarth-Johnson Gallery Association, Cooktown. (pbk); Limited Edition - Leather Bound. *Sutton, Peter (ed). ''Languages of Cape York: Papers presented to a Symposium organised by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies''. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra. (1976). *Wynter, Jo and Hill, John. 1991. ''Cape York Peninsula: Pathways to Community Economic Development''. The Final Report of The Community Economic Development Projects Cook Shire. Cook Shire Council.

External links

* {{authority control Towns in Queensland Populated places in Far North Queensland Shire of Cook Localities in Queensland