Bolwarra is a rural

locality Locality may refer to: * Locality, a historical named location or place in Canada * Locality (association), an association of community regeneration organizations in England * Locality (linguistics) * Locality (settlement) * Suburbs and localitie ...

in the

Shire of Mareeba The Shire of Mareeba is a Local government in Australia, local government area at the base of Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, inland from Cairns, Queensland, Cairns. The shire, administered from the town of Mareeba, Queensland, Mare ...

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 , Bolwarra had "no people or a very low population".

Geography

The

Lynd River The Lynd River is a river located on the Cape York Peninsula in the Shire of Mareeba in Far North Queensland, Australia. Course and features The headwaters of the river rise in the Forty Mile Scrub National Park in the Great Dividing Range a ...

and its tributary the

Tate River The Tate River is a river in Far North Queensland, Australia. The headwaters of the river rise under Three Mile Mountain in the Great Dividing Range. Formed by the confluence of the Packsaddle Creek and California Creek, the river flows east t ...

both flow through the locality from east to west. Bolwarra has the following mountains (from north to south): * Hermans Hill () * Sids Hill () * Taylors Hill () * Mount Valentine () * Mount May () * Reedy Creek Bluff () * Mount William () The land use is

grazing In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to free range (roam around) and consume wild vegetations in order to feed conversion ratio, convert the otherwise indigestible (by human diges ...

on native vegetation.

Demographics

In the , Bolwarra had "no people or a very low population". In the , Bolwarra had "no people or a very low population".

Education

There are no schools in Bolwarra. The nearest government primary school is Chillagoe State School in

Chillagoe Chillagoe is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Chillagoe had a population of 214 people. It was once a thriving mining town for a range of minerals, but is now reduced to a small ...

to the north-east. However, it would be too distant for students in the south and west of the locality to attend. Also, there are no nearby secondary schools. The alternatives are

distance education Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at school, or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time and distance; today, it usually involves online ...

and boarding school.

References

{{Shire of Mareeba Shire of Mareeba Localities in Queensland