Kirrama 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 ...

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

Geography

The locality is bounded to the south and west by 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 ...

. The Blencoe Falls are within the south of the locality and the Herbert River Falls are on the boundary of Kirrama and Wairuna. The Blencoe Falls are on the Wet Tropics Great Walk.

History

The locality takes its name from the Kirrama pastoral run in 1870s. The name is thought to be the Indigenous language group name ''Keremai'' or ''Kirimai'' local to the area.

Demographics

In the , Kirrama had a population of 9 people. In the , Kirrama had "no people or a very low population".

References

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