Conjuboy is a remote rural

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in the

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

Geography

The Gregory Developmental Road passes through the locality from the south-west to the south-east, while the

Kennedy Developmental Road The Kennedy Highway is a highway in northern Queensland, Australia. It runs as National Route 1 for approximately 243 km from Smithfield, Queensland, Smithfield, on the northern outskirts of Cairns, to the Gulf Developmental Road in the vic ...

passes through the locality from the east to the south; they intersect in the south of the locality. The ridge of the

Great Dividing Range The Great Dividing Range, also known as the East Australian Cordillera or the Eastern Highlands, is a cordillera system in eastern Australia consisting of an expansive collection of mountain ranges, plateaus and rolling hills. It runs roughl ...

runs from north to south through Conjuboy creating a

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. Dry River rises in the east of the locality and flows into the

Herbert River The Herbert River is a river in Far North Queensland, Australia. The southernmost of Queensland's wet tropics river systems, it was named in 1864 by George Elphinstone Dalrymple explorer, after Robert Herbert, Robert George Wyndham Herbert, th ...

and ultimately into the Ross River towards 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 ...

. Spring Creek rises in the north-west of the locality and flows into the Einasleigh River and ultimately into the Gilbert River into the

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. The predominant 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.

History

The locality was officially named and bounded on 23 June 2000; however the name has been in use as a pastoral station since at least 1934 when it was operated by Arthur Darcy Wilson.

Demographics

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

Education

There are no schools in Conjuboy. The nearest primary schools are Greenvale State School in neighbouring Greenvale to the south-east and Mount Surprise State School in neighbouring Mount Surprise to the north-west. There are no secondary schools near Conjuboy;

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 schools are the only options.

References

{{Shire of Etheridge Shire of Etheridge Localities in Queensland