Mount Jukes is a mountain and surrounding coastal rural

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north of

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in the

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, Australia. In the , Mount Jukes had a population of 373 people.

Geography

The locality is bounded to the east by the

Coral Sea The Coral Sea () is a marginal sea of the South Pacific off the northeast coast of Australia, and classified as an interim Australian bioregion. The Coral Sea extends down the Australian northeast coast. Most of it is protected by the Fre ...

, to the south-east by Constant Creek which flows into the Coral Sea, and to the south-west by Nielson Creek, a tributary of Constant Creek. There are three sections of the

Pioneer Peaks National Park Pioneer Peaks is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 833 km northwest of Brisbane. See also * Protected areas of Queensland Queensland is the second largest state in Australia. It contains around 500 separate protected areas. I ...

in the west, south-west and south of the locality. The mountain Mount Jukes is located in the south-west of the locality () within the south-western section of the national park and the

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. It rises to above sea level and is composed of

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that has been weathered and eroded. Mount Adder is another mountain within the western section of the national park () rising to . The mountains originated from volcanic activity approximately 32 million years ago. Apart from the national parks, the land use is a mixture of crop growing (mostly

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 ...

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 and

rural residential A hobby farm (also called a lifestyle block in New Zealand, or acreage living or rural residential in Australia) is a smallholding or small farm that is maintained without expectation of being a primary source of income. Some are held merely to ...

housing. Offshore is Sand Bay (). Yakapari-Seaforth Road enters the locality from the south ( Kuttabul) and exits to the north-west ( Seaforth). There is a network of

cane tramways The rail network in Queensland, Australia, was the first in the world to adopt narrow gauge for a main line, and now the second largest narrow gauge network in the world, consists of: *the North Coast Line (NCL) extending from Brisbane to R ...

in the locality to transport the harvested sugarcane to the local

sugar mills A sugar cane mill is a factory that processes sugar cane to produce raw or white sugar. The term is also used to refer to the equipment that crushes the sticks of sugar cane to extract the juice. Processing There are a number of steps in prod ...

operated by

Mackay Sugar Mackay Sugar is the largest sugar producer in Queensland and second largest sugar producer in Australia. In 2013, Mackay Sugar was inducted into the Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame. History Mackay Sugar Limited (MSL) was formed through ...

. Mount Jukes has a species of

shrubs A shrub (often also called a bush) is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees ...

growing in its trees called the Mount Blackwood holly ('' Graptophyllum ilicifolium''), a species only found in Mount Blackwood area.

History

Mount Jukes was named by

George Elphinstone Dalrymple George Augustus Frederick Elphinstone Dalrymple (6 May 1826 – 22 January 1876) was a colonist, explorer, public servant and politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. He founded the towns of Bowen and Cardwell, and pionee ...

in 1862 after geologist

Joseph Beete Jukes Joseph Beete Jukes (10 October 1811 – 29 July 1869), born to John and Sophia Jukes at Summer Hill, Birmingham, England, was a renowned geologist, author of several geological manuals and served as a naturalist on the expeditions of (under th ...

, who served as a naturalist on the explorations of from 1842 to 1846. In 1896, Harold Forster Blaxland had purchased land on Mount Jukes to open a coffee plantation. Eight acres of coffee plants were planted in 1897 and a further seven was planted in the following years. Due to financial struggles the coffee plantation closed in 1919.

Demographics

In the , Mount Jukes had a population of 394 people. In the , Mount Jukes had a population of 373 people.

Education

There are no schools in Mount Jukes. The nearest government primary schools are Seaforth State School in neighbouring Seaforth to the north-west and Hampden State School in neighbouring Hampden to the south. The nearest government secondary schools is

Mackay North State High School Mackay North State High School is located in the Mackay region, Queensland, Australia and was established in 1964 with an enrolment of 209 students in years eight and nine. The school motto is 'Meliora Sequimur' which translates to 'We strive fo ...

North Mackay North Mackay is a suburb of Mackay in the Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , North Mackay had a population of 5,933 people. Although in present times North Mackay is an officially and precisely bounded area, historically and in inf ...

to the south-east.

Amenities

There is a boat ramp in Howell's Road into Constant Creek (). It is managed by 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 ...

References

External links

Mt Jukes Coffee Plantation photographs 1890-1936

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Jukes Jukes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Andrew Jukes (theologian) (1815–1901) *Andrew Jukes (missionary) (1847–1931), Anglican missionary *Betty Jukes (1910–2006), British sculptor *Bill Jukes (c.1883–1939), English ru ...

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