McEwens Beach is a coastal town and rural

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in the

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, Australia. In the , the locality of McEwens Beach recorded a population of 202 people.

Geography

The locality is bounded to the east by the Coral Sea with a long sandy beach along the length of the coast, also known as McEwens Beach (). The town of McEwens Beach is on the south-eastern coast facing Sandringham Bay (). The north-east of the locality is Bakers Creek Conservation Park (). The aim of the park is to protect the shore birds. This includes both the Australian beach stone-curlew which is deemed as vulnerable as well as migratory shore birds. The town is a small residential area along the south-east coast, accessible via McEwens Beach Road. The area surrounding the town is undeveloped, being mostly marshland. The west of the locality is used to grow

sugarcane Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of (often hybrid) tall, Perennial plant, perennial grass (in the genus ''Saccharum'', tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar Sugar industry, production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with ...

while the middle of the locality is used for

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. There is a cane tramway in the west of the locality to transport the harvested sugarcane to the local sugar mill for processing.

History

From the 1920s the location was known as McEwen’s Beach, after Robert Field McEwen who had purchased land in the area. The area was named as a township by the Queensland Place Names Board on 11 December 1980. In the , the locality of McEwens Beach had a population of 202 people.

Amenities

The

Mackay Regional Council The Mackay Region is a local government area located in North Queensland, Queensland, Australia. Established in 2008, it was preceded by three previous local government areas with modern histories extending back as far as 1869. It has an estima ...

operates a mobile library service on a fortnightly schedule at Aura Street. McEwens Beach Reserve is a foreshore park to the south of the town (). There is an foreshore esplanade at the north of the town ().

Education

There are no schools in McEwens Beach. The nearest primary school is Chelona State School in neighbouring Chelona to the south-west. The nearest secondary school is

Mackay State High School Mackay State High School is located at 123 Milton Street, South Mackay, Mackay, Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia. Mackay State High School is a public educational institution located in the city of Mackay, Queensland, Australia. The school of ...

in Mackay to the north.

References

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