Maramie is a

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in the

Shire of Carpentaria The Shire of Carpentaria is a local government area in Far North Queensland, Australia on the Gulf of Carpentaria, for which it is named. Geography The Shire of Carpentaria covers an area of , and has existed as a local government entity sinc ...

Queensland ) , 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 , established_ ...

, Australia. In the , Maramie had a population of 28 people.

Geography

The '' Mitchell River'' flows through from east to north-west. The '' Alice River'' rises in the locality and flows north-west to its junction with the ''Mitchell'' on the north-western boundary. The

Burke Developmental Road The Burke Developmental Road is a Queensland (Australia) developmental road. It links Cloncurry and Normanton in a south–north direction, then turns to the north-east north of Normanton for before turning south-east till Dimbulah, where it ...

(State Route 27) enters the locality from the south ( Yagoonya) and exits to the east (

Highbury Highbury is a district in North London and part of the London Borough of Islington in Greater London that was owned by Ranulf brother of Ilger and included all the areas north and east of Canonbury and Holloway Roads. The manor house was situ ...

). There are three national parks within the locality: * Errk Oykangand National Park in the north-west of the locality * a small portion of Olkola National Park in the north-east of the locality (extending into neighbouring

Dixie Dixie, also known as Dixieland or Dixie's Land, is a nickname for all or part of the Southern United States. While there is no official definition of this region (and the included areas shift over the years), or the extent of the area it cover ...

) * Staaten River National Park in the south-east of the locality (extending into neighbouring Staaten) Apart from these protected areas, the predominant land use is

grazing In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to roam around and consume wild vegetations in order to convert the otherwise indigestible (by human gut) cellulose within grass and other ...

on native vegetation.

History

The locality takes its name from Maramie Creek (now called Clark Creek) which was in turn named by pastoralists

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 N ...

and

Alexander William Jardine Alexander William Jardine (9 October 1843 – 20 March 1920), A.M.I.C.E., made a trip from Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia to Somerset, Queensland in 1864. Details are provided in the entry for his brother, Frank Jardine who also took ...

after the fresh water crayfish (known to them as maramie) which they caught in the creek.

Demographics

In the , Maramie had a population of 13 people. In the , Maramie had a population of 28 people.

Economy

There are a number of homesteads in the locality: * Dorunda Outstation () * Dunbar () * Koolatah () * Oriners ()

Education

There are no schools in Maramie. The nearest primary school is Kowanyama State School in neighbouring

Kowanyama Kowanyama is a town and coastal locality in the Aboriginal Shire of Kowanyama, Queensland, Australia. It is the site of the former Mitchell River Mission, founded in 1916, after the nearby Trubanamen Mission (established not far away on Tops ...

to the north-west, but it would be too distant from many parts of Maramie for a daily commute. There are no secondary schools nearby. The alternatives are

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.

References

{{Shire of Carpentaria Shire of Carpentaria Localities in Queensland