Nychum 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 , Nychum had "no people or a very low population".

Geography

The entire locality is within the pastoral property ''Nychum'' which has its homestead at the end of Nychum Road () adjacent to Elizabeth Creek. It is owned by the Kenny Creek pastoral company and is managed from their property in neighbouring

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. Wollenden Airstrip (also known as Nychum) is an airstrip located to the immediate south-west of the Nychum homestead (). 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.

Demographics

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

Education

There are no schools in Nychum. The nearest primary school is Chillagoe State School in neighbouring

Chillagoe Chillagoe is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Chillagoe had a population of 214 people. It was once a thriving mining town for a range of minerals, but is now reduced to a small ...

to the south. There are no nearby secondary schools.

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or boarding schools are the options.

References

{{Shire of Mareeba Shire of Mareeba Localities in Queensland