Armstrong Beach is a coastal town and a

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in the

Mackay Region 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 estimat ...

Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...

, Australia. In the , the locality of Armstrong Beach had a population of 903 people.

Geography

The waters of the ''

Coral Sea The Coral Sea () is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean, South Pacific off the northeast coast of Australia, and classified as an Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia, interim Australian bioregion. The Coral Sea extends down t ...

'' form the eastern boundary.

History

The locality was mistakenly named and bounded on 4 June 1999 as Armstrong Creek but was corrected on 19 November 1999 to be Armstrong Beach.

Demographics

In the , the locality of Armstrong Beach had a population of 863 people. In the , the locality of Armstrong Beach had a population of 903 people.

Education

There are no schools in Armstrong Beach. The nearest government primary and secondary schools are Sarina State School and

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 aquarium ...

, both in neighbouring

Sarina Sarina is a rural town and coastal Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Sarina had a population of 5,619 people. Geography Sarina lies just inland of the east coa ...

to the west.

References

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* {{authority control Towns in Queensland Mackay Region Coastline of Queensland Localities in Queensland