Fossilbrook is a rural

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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 ...

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

Geography

The

Tablelands railway line The Tablelands railway line is a railway line in North Queensland, Australia. It was opened in a series of sections between 1887 and 1916. It commences at Cairns and at its maximum extent, reached Ravenshoe at the southern end of the ...

passes through the locality with the locality being served by Lyndbrook railway station ().

History

Fossilbrook Provisional School opened in 1908. On 1 January 1909 it became Fossilbrook State School. It closed on 1926.

Demographics

In the , Fossilbrook had a population of 5 people. In the , Fossilbrook had "no people or a very low population".

References

{{Shire of Mareeba Shire of Mareeba Localities in Queensland