Rockingham is a rural town and coastal
locality
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in the
Cassowary Coast Region,
Queensland
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, nickname = Sunshine State
, image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg
, map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia
, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Australia
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, Australia.
In the , the locality of Rockingham had a population of 107 people.
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Geography
The locality is bounded to the north by the Tully River
The Tully River is a river located in Far North Queensland, Far North Queensland, Australia.
Course and features
The Tully River rises in the Cardwell Range, part of the Great Dividing Range on the northern boundary of the Kirrama State Fores ...
, to the east by Rockingham Bay
Rockingham Bay is a bay in Far North Queensland, Australia.
The bay opens onto the Coral Sea, part of the South Pacific Ocean. Adjacent to the bay is the Girramay National Park, south of which is the town of Cardwell. Goold Island is a smal ...
, and to the south by the Murray River. The town lies in the far north of the locality on the southern bank of the Tully River; there are only a few houses in the town.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 ...
with some 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 bay takes its name from Rockingham Bay, which in turn was named on 8 June 1770 by Lieutenant James Cook
James Cook (7 November 1728 Old Style date: 27 October – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy, famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean an ...
of HMS Endeavour, after Charles Watson-Wentworth
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, (13 May 1730 – 1 July 1782; styled The Hon. Charles Watson-Wentworth before 1733, Viscount Higham between 1733 and 1746, Earl of Malton between 1746 and 1750 and The Marquess of Rocking ...
, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham and a former British Prime Minister.[
In the , the locality of Rockingham had a population of 107 people.]
Education
There are no schools in Rockingham. The nearest government primary schools are Lower Tully State School in neighbouring Lower Tully to the north, Tully State School in Tully to the north-west, and Murray River Upper State School in Murray Upper to the south-west. The nearest government secondary school is Tully State High School in Tully.
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Towns in Queensland
Cassowary Coast Region
Localities in Queensland