Sarina Beach is a coastal town and

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in the

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, Australia. In the , the locality of Sarina Beach had a population of 607 people.

Geography

The locality is bounded to east by the Coral Sea, to the south by the Sarina Inlet and Plane Creek, and to the west by the

Goonyella railway line The Goonyella railway system is located in Central Queensland, Australia. It services the coal mining area of the Bowen Basin, carrying coal to the Hay Point and Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminals 20 km southeast of Mackay, as well as products t ...

that carries

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from the

Bowen Basin The Bowen Basin contains the largest coal reserves in Australia. This major coal-producing region contains one of the world's largest deposits of bituminous coal. The Basin contains much of the known Permian coal resources in Queensland includ ...

coalfields to

Hay Point Hay is grass, legumes, or other herbaceous plants that have been cut and dried to be stored for use as animal fodder, either for large grazing animals raised as livestock, such as cattle, horses, goats, and sheep, or for smaller domesticated ...

for shipping. Praguelands railway station ion the Goonyella railway line is on the boundary of the localities of Sarina and Sarina Beach. (). Sarina Beach Road connects the town of Sarina to the south-east to the town of Sarah Beach on the east coast of the locality.

Coastal features

Sarina Beach has the following coastal features (from west to east): * Biltofts Beach () * Sarina Inlet () * Point Salisbury () * Johnsons Beach () * Perpetua Point () * Sarina Beach, the beach ()

History

The name ultimately derives the Sarina Inlet, believed to be named by surveyor William Charles Borlase Wilson from

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meaning ''enchantress''. The beach became popular with beachgoers in the late 1920s with the first house built in 1928 for Mrs Campbell senior, who established a business providing dressing room facilities. In the , the locality of Sarina Beach had a population of 607 people.

Education

There are no schools in Sarina Beach. The nearest government primary schools are Alligator Creek State School in Alligator Creek to the north-west and Sarina State School in neighbouring Sarina to the south-east. The nearest government secondary school is

Sarina State High School Sarina State High School is located in the small rural town of Sarina, Queensland, Australia. The school had 600 students in 2013 with a reported 20 percent continuing studies at University. Sarina State High previously boasted a marine aquar ...

also in Sarina.

References

External links

Town map of Sarina Beach, 1979
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