Gunnawarra is a rural

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in the

Tablelands Region The Tablelands Region is a Local government in Australia, local government area in Far North Queensland, Australia inland from the city of Cairns, Queensland, Cairns. Established in 2008, it was preceded by four previous local government areas ...

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 , Gunnawarra had a population of 27 people.

Geography

Gunnawarra is south-west of

Cairns Cairns (; ) is a city in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia, on the tropical north east coast of Far North Queensland. In the , Cairns had a population of 153,181 people. The city was founded in 1876 and named after William Cairns, Sir W ...

via the

Bruce Highway The Bruce Highway is a major highway in Queensland, Australia. Commencing in the state capital, Brisbane, it passes through areas close to the eastern coast on its way to Cairns in Far North Queensland. The route is part of the Australian Natio ...

Gillies Range Road The Gillies Highway is a road that runs from Gordonvale in the Cairns Region through the Gillies Range (part of the Great Dividing Range) to Atherton in the Tablelands Region, both in Queensland, Australia. Its official name is Gillies Range ...

, Lake Barrine Road, State Route 25, State Route 24, the

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

and Gunnawarra Road. From further west it can be accessed via the Kennedy Highway. 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 ...

'' forms most of the eastern boundary. The Kennedy Highway crosses the north-west corner from the north. Ootann Road enters from the north-west. Gunnawarra has the following mountains (from north to south): * Mount Bear () * Mount Kallon () * Gunnawarra Bump () 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.

History

The name ''Gunnawarra'' comes from the pastoral property established by Walter Jervoise Scott and his brother Arthur Jervoise Scott, and is derived from Aboriginal words ''gunnaya'' meaning ''camp'' and ''warra'' meaning ''small''.

Demographics

In the , Gunnawarra had a population of 13 people. In the , Gunnawarra had a population of 27 people.

Heritage listings

Gunnawarra has a number of

heritage-listed This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and human-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded. In ma ...

sites, including: *

Gunnawarra Homestead Gunnawarra Homestead is a heritage-listed homestead at Gunnawarra Road, Gunnawarra, Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1878 to 1908. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. History Gunna ...

, Gunnawarra Road ()

Education

There are no schools in Gunnawarra. The nearest government primary school is Mount Garnet State School in neighbouring

Mount Garnet Mount Garnet is a rural town and locality in the Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Mount Garnet had a population of 532 people. Geography Various small communities populate the area around Mount Garnet. These ...

to the north. The nearet government secondary school is Ravenshoe State School (to Year 12) in

Ravenshoe Ravenshoe ( ) is a rural town and locality in the Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Ravenshoe had a population of 1,332 people. Geography Ravenshoe is on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland. It is ...

to the north-east.

Tourism

Gunnawarra is the start and end of two sections of the

Bicentennial National Trail The Bicentennial National Trail (BNT), originally known as the National Horse Trail, is one of the longest multi-use, non-motorised, self-reliant trails in the world, stretching 5,330 kilometres from Cooktown, Queensland, Cooktown, Queensland, ...

References

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