Maramie is a
locality
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in the
Shire of Carpentaria
The Shire of Carpentaria is a local government area in Far North Queensland, Australia on the Gulf of Carpentaria, for which it is named.
In the , the Shire of Carpentaria had a population of 2,090 people.
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Queensland
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, Australia.
In the , Maramie had a population of 28 people.
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Geography
The ''Mitchell River Mitchell River may refer to:
Australia
*Mitchell River (Queensland)
*Mitchell River (Victoria)
*Mitchell River (Western Australia)
*Mann River (New South Wales) is sometimes referred to as Mitchell River.
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'' flows through from east to north-west. The '' Alice River'' rises in the locality and flows north-west to its junction with the ''Mitchell'' on the north-western boundary.Burke Developmental Road
The Burke Developmental Road is a Queensland (Australia) developmental road. It links Cloncurry and Normanton in a south–north direction, then turns to the north-east north of Normanton for before turning south-east till Dimbulah, where i ...
(State Route 27) enters the locality from the south ( Yagoonya) and exits to the east (Highbury
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Highbury Manor
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The manor hou ...
).Dixie
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)
* Staaten River National Park in the south-east of the locality (extending into neighbouring Staaten)
Apart from these protected areas, 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 takes its name from Maramie Creek (now called Clark Creek) which was in turn named by pastoralists Francis Lascelles Jardine
Francis Lascelles (Frank) Jardine (28 August 1841 – 19 March 1919) was a Scottish-Australian pioneer who was at the forefront of British colonisation and Aboriginal dispossession in the Cape York Peninsula and Torres Strait regions of Far ...
and Alexander William Jardine after the fresh water crayfish (known to them as maramie) which they caught in the creek.
Demographics
In the , Maramie had a population of 13 people.
Economy
There are a number of homesteads in the locality:
Education
There are no schools in Maramie. The nearest primary school is Kowanyama State School in neighbouring Kowanyama to the north-west, but it would be too distant from many parts of Maramie for a daily commute. There are no secondary schools nearby. The alternatives are distance education
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and boarding school.
References
{{Shire of Carpentaria
Shire of Carpentaria
Localities in Queensland