Iron Range is a coastal locality in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. In the , Iron Range had a population of 14 people. The town of Portland Road is on a north-east headland in the locality ().

Geography

Iron Range is on the north-east coast of the Cape York Peninsula. Weymouth Bay is off the north-eastern coast of locality. All of the locality of Iron Range is occupied by the Kutini Payamu National Park (formerly the Iron Range National Park).

History

The town of Portland Road is named after the harbour of the same name. The harbour first appeared on an 1897 British Admiralty Chart. On 11 November 1948, as part of a centenary commemoration, a monument to explorer Edmund Kennedy and his ill-fated expedition to explore Cape York Peninsula was erected at Portland Road near a spring where the expedition drew water in 1848. On 11 April 2014, the former locality of Lockhart was split into two new localities: Iron Range and Lockhart River. The locality of Iron Range takes its name from the Iron Range National Park (now known as the Kutini-Payamu National Park).

Heritage listings

Iron Range has a number of

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

sites, including: *

Gordon's Mine and Mill Gordon's Mine and Mill is a heritage-listed mining, mine at Iron Range, Queensland, Iron Range, Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. It was built from to 1950s. It is also known as Iron Range Mine and Mill. It was added to the Queensland Heri ...

References

{{Shire of Cook Shire of Cook Coastline of Queensland Localities in Queensland