Shelburne is a northern coastal
locality
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in the
Shire of Cook
The Shire of Cook (The Shire) is a local government area in Far North Queensland, Australia. The Shire covers most of the eastern and central parts of Cape York Peninsula, the most northerly section of the Australian mainland.
It covers an area ...
,
Queensland
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, Australia.
In the , Shelburne had a population of 44 people.
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Geography
The Great Dividing Range
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enters the locality from the north (Jardine River
The Jardine River, formally known as Deception River, is the largest river of the Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, Australia.
Course
The headwaters of the river rise southwest of Helby Hill in the Great Dividing Range and flow in a ...
) and exits to the south-west ( Wenlock), but then forms the south-western boundary of the locality.[
The Pascoe River forms the south-eastern boundary of the locality, flowing into th Coral Sea.The eastern boundary of the locality is within the ]Coral Sea
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as the boundary of the locality encompasses a number of off-shore islands.[
Parts of Shelburn are protected areas. In the north of the locality is the Heathlands Resources Reserve. In the east of the locality is the Wuthathi (Shelburne Bay) National Park and the Bromley (Ampulin) National Park. In the south of the locality is the Bromley (Kungkaychi) National Park.]grazing
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on native vegetation.
History
In 1976, the Australian Conservation Foundation
The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) is Australia's national environmental organisation, launched in 1965 in response to a proposal by the World Wide Fund for Nature for a more co-ordinated approach to sustainability.
One high-profi ...
first proposed the establishment of a national park to protect Shelburne Bays' white silica sand dunes. In 1987, a silica sand mining project in the area was rejected by Prime Minister
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Bob Hawke
Robert James Lee Hawke (9 December 1929 – 16 May 2019) was an Australian politician and trade unionist who served as the 23rd prime minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991. He held office as the Australian Labor Party, leader of the La ...
because of environmental concerns and the adverse impact on the Aboriginal community who had sacred sites
A sacred space, sacred ground, sacred place, sacred temple, holy ground, holy place or holy site is a location which is regarded to be sacred or hallowed. The sacredness of a natural feature may accrue through tradition or be granted through a ...
in the area. On 15 December 2016 the Queensland Treasurer Curtis Pitt
Curtis Warren Pitt (born 1 February 1977) is an Australian politician who has been a Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland since 2009, representing the district of Mulgrave. On 14 February 2015, he was sworn in as Treas ...
announced that more than of land would be returned to the Wuthathi
The Wuthathi, also known as the Mutjati, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of Queensland. Anthropologist Norman Tindale distinguished the Mutjati from the Otati, whereas AIATSIS treats the two ethnonyms as variants related to th ...
people with set aside to create the Wuthathi (Shelburne Bay) National Park which would be jointly managed by the Queensland Government
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and the Wuthathi people.
On 17 May 2017, the Queensland Government announced that of land set aside in 1986 for the development of a spaceport would be returned to the Wuthathi, Kuuku Ya’u and Northern Kaanju people. of the land would be used to establish Bromley (Ampulin) National and used to establish Bromley (Kungkaychi) National Parks, both of which would be jointly managed by the Bromley Aboriginal Corporation and the Queensland Government.
Demographics
In the , Shelburne had a population of 31 people.
Education
There are no schools in Shelburne nor nearby. Options are distance education
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and boarding school.
Attractions
There are a number of lookouts in Shelburne, including:
* Captain Billy Lookout at Captain Billy Landing on the northern coast of the locality ()
References
{{Shire of Cook
Shire of Cook
Coastline of Queensland
Localities in Queensland