Yungaburra is a rural town and

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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 , the locality of Yungaburra had a population of 1,272 people.

Geography

Yungaburra is on the

Atherton Tableland The Atherton Tableland is a fertile plateau, which is part of the Great Dividing Range in Queensland, Australia. It has very deep, rich basaltic soils and the main industry is agriculture. The principal river flowing across the plateau is the B ...

Far North Queensland Far North Queensland (FNQ) is the northernmost part of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Queensland. Its largest city is Cairns, Queensland, Cairns and it is dominated geographically by Cape York Peninsula, which stret ...

. The landscape around Yungaburra has been shaped by millennia of volcanic activity. The most recent eruptions were approximately 10,000 years ago. Notable geological features nearby include: * Seven Sisters and

Mount Quincan Mount Quincan is a Volcano, volcanic mountain near Yungaburra, Queensland, Yungaburra on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland, Australia. The extinct volcano is one of many cinder cones in the Atherton Tableland region. Its crater is ...

are volcanic cones. * Lake Eacham (Yidyam) and Lake Barrine are lakes inside volcanic craters. *

Mount Hypipamee Crater The Mount Hypipamee Crater, also known as The Crater, is a huge diatreme located south-east of Herberton on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is 61 metres in diameter and 82 metres deep. It has been part ...

is a

diatreme A diatreme, sometimes known as a maar-diatreme volcano, is a volcanic pipe associated with a gaseous explosion. When magma rises up through a crack in Earth's crust and makes contact with a shallow body of groundwater, rapid expansion of heated ...

(crater). *

Tinaroo Dam The Tinaroo Dam, officially the Tinaroo Falls Dam, is a major ungated concrete gravity dam, gravity dam with a Spillway#Types, central ogee spillway across the Barron River (Queensland), Barron River located on the Atherton Tableland in Far Nor ...

submerged the old town of Kulara is visible, on whose cricket-pitch, when drought conditions drastically lower the water-level, locals play cricket matches.

History

Prior to European settlement, the area around Yungaburra was inhabited by about sixteen different

indigenous Indigenous may refer to: *Indigenous peoples *Indigenous (ecology) In biogeography, a native species is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only local natural evolution (though often populari ...

groups, among them the Ngatjan, with the custodians being

Yidinji people The Yidiny (also spelt Yidindj, Yidinji or Yidiñ), are an Aboriginal Australian people in Far North Queensland. Their language is the Yidiny language. Language The last fluent speakers of Yidiny were Tilly Fuller (d. October 1974), George Dav ...

and neighbouring

Ngajanji The Ngajanji, also written ''Ngadyan,'' and Ngadjon-Jii are an Indigenous Australian people of the rainforest region south of Cairns, in northern Queensland. They form one of eight groups, the others being Yidin, Mamu, Dyirbal, Girramay, War ...

people. The Queensland police and native troops carried out extensive massacres in the area to rid it of blacks. In one incident in 1884, at Skull Pocket just north of the town, a group of Yidinji were surrounded at night, and at dawn mowed down after they fled on hearing the first shot. The children were brained or stabbed to death by native troopers. In the early 1880s, the area around Allumbah Pocket was used as an overnight stop for miners travelling west from the coast. In 1886 the land was surveyed, and in 1891 settlers moved in. Allumbah State School opened on 7 June 1909. In 1911 it was renamed Yungaburra State School. In 1910, the railway arrived and the railway station was named ''Yungaburra'' by the

Queensland Railways Department Queensland Rail (QR) is a railway operator in Queensland, Australia. Queensland Rail is owned by the Queensland Government, and operates both suburban and interurban rail services in South East Queensland, as well as long-distance passenger t ...

. The town was then renamed Yungaburra, to avoid confusion with another town called Allumbah. The name ''Yungaburra'' comes from the local Yidiny word ''janggaburru,'' denoting the Queensland silver ash (Flindersia bourjotiana). By 1911, indigenous numbers had fallen to 20% of the pre-settlement population due to disease, conflict with settlers and loss of habitat. In January 1911, residents of Kulara (a small town to the north of Yungaburra) began lobbying for a school, claiming there were 42 children in the district. Kulara State School opened on 17 June 1912. It closed on 1 September 1958, when the Tinaroo Dam began to fill, inundating the town. However, being on higher ground, the school building was not flooded and became a private residence at 85 Backshall Road (now in Barrine, ). In 2006, the Atherton Tableland region was damaged by

Cyclone Larry Severe Tropical Cyclone Larry was a tropical cyclone that made landfall in Australia during the 2005–06 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone season. Larry originated as a low pressure system over the eastern Coral Sea on 16 March 2006, and ...

, rated as Category 4 cyclone on the Australian scale. Of the 19 heritage listed sites in Yungaburra, only the roofs of the community hall, police station and one of the bush cottages were badly damaged, as were the front of the Yungaburra Butchery and Gem Gallery sign. The town was restored very quickly; little evidence of the cyclone is visible.

Demographics

In the , the town of Yungaburra had a population of 932 people. In the , the locality of Yungaburra had a population of 1,116 people. In the , the locality of Yungaburra had a population of 1,239 people. In the , the locality of Yungaburra had a population of 1,272 people.

Heritage listings

Yungaburra has a number of

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sites, including: * 27 Atherton Road:

Bank of New South Wales The Bank of New South Wales (BNSW), also known as The Wales, was the first bank in Australia. It was established in 1817 in Sydney. During the 19th century, the bank opened branches throughout Australia and New Zealand, expanding into Oceania ...

* 6–10 Cedar Street: Yungaburra Court House * 7–9 Cedar Street: 7–9 Cedar Street, Yungaburra * 12 Cedar Street:

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* 15–17 Cedar Street:

Yungaburra Post Office Yungaburra Post Office is a heritage-listed post office at 15–17 Cedar Street, Yungaburra, Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1926. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. History The pos ...

* 16–20 Cedar Street: Williams' House * 19 Cedar Street: Yungaburra Community Centre * 32 Cedar: Billy Madrid's House * 34 Cedar Street: Barber's Shop, Yungaburra * Curtain Fig Tree Road, East Barron:

Curtain Fig Tree Curtain Fig Tree is a heritage-listed tree at Curtain Fig Tree Road, East Barron, Queensland, East Barron near Yungaburra, Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. It is one of the largest trees in Tropical North Queensland, Australia, and one ...

* 7 Eacham Road: St Marks Anglican Church * 25–33 Eacham Road:

Cairns Plywood Pty Ltd Sawmill Complex Cairns Plywood Pty Ltd Sawmill Complex is a heritage-listed sawmill at 25–33 Eacham Road, Yungaburra, Queensland, Yungaburra, Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1910 to the 1980s. It is also known as Cairns Plywood Li ...

* 20 Gillies Highway: Eden House Restaurant * 2 Kehoe Place: Butchers Shop * 6–8 Kehoe Place:

Lake Eacham Hotel Lake Eacham Hotel is a heritage-listed hotel at 6–8 Kehoe Place, Yungaburra, Queensland, Yungaburra, Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1910 by Side Brothers. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 Octob ...

* 7 Mulgrave Road: Allumbah * 4 Oak Street:

* 1 Penda Street: St Patricks Catholic Church *on the shores of Lake Tinaroo, the Afghanistan Avenue of Honour File:CurtainFig.jpg, Curtain Fig Tree File:StateLibQld 1 117728 Williams' Lake Eacham Hotel, 1912.jpg, Lake Eacham Hotel

Amenities

Yungaburra's economy today revolves around tourism, and the town contains a primary school, post office, library/

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and a range of businesses and services for the use of residents and visitors. Other facilities include a tennis court and a bowling club. The town has 18 Heritage Listed buildings, and is the largest National Trust village in Queensland. The Yungaburra Markets, held on the fourth Saturday of each month, are one of the largest in

, and each year around the end of October, Yungaburra holds the two-day Yungaburra Folk Festival, featuring concerts from Australian (and sometimes international)

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ians. Yungaburra is also the site of the war memorial to soldiers lost, opened 22 June 2013. There is a network of walking tracks around the town including Peterson's Creek. Yungaburra has a library at Maud Kehoe Park operated by the Tablelands Regional Council. The Yungaburra branch of the

Queensland Country Women's Association The Queensland Country Women's Association (QCWA) is the Queensland chapter of the Country Women's Association in Australia. The association seeks to serve the interests of women and children in rural areas in Australia through a network of loca ...

meets at the QCWA Hall on the corner of Cedar Street and the

Gillies Highway The Gillies Highway is a road that runs from Gordonvale in the Cairns Region through the Gillies Range (part of the Great Dividing Range) to Atherton in the Tablelands Region, both in Queensland, Australia. Its official name is Gillies Range ...

. Our Lady of Consolation and St Patrick's Catholic Church is at 3 Mulgrave Road. It is within the Atherton Parish of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Cairns The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cairns is located in the state of Queensland, Australia. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Brisbane. The diocese was erected as a vicariate apostolic in 1877 and was elevated to a diocese in 1941. It ...

Education

Yungaburra State School is a government primary (Prep–6) school for boys and girls at 4 Maple Street (). In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 213 students with 18 teachers (12 full-time equivalent) and 14 non-teaching staff (9 full-time equivalent). In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 224 students with 20 teachers (15 full-time equivalent) and 15 non-teaching staff (8 full-time equivalent). There is no secondary school in Yungaburra. The nearest government secondary schools are

Atherton State High School Atherton State High School (ASHS) is a co-educational, state secondary school in Atherton, Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. Education TAFE and Atherton High School were linked through vocational education and training programs. Howeve ...

in Atherton to the west and Malanda State High School in Malanda to the south.

Tourism

Allumbah Pocket is a picnic area on Peterson's Creek which runs past Yungaburra. It is the centre for a series of walking tracks along the creek. Tracks lead to Frawley's Pool, a popular swimming hole and picnic area, then further to Yungaburra's historical train bridge. In the opposite direction there is a track to the

platypus The platypus (''Ornithorhynchus anatinus''), sometimes referred to as the duck-billed platypus, is a semiaquatic, egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. The platypus is the sole living representative or monotypi ...

viewing deck. Aside from this all of the tracks are relatively easy and short enough for anyone to do. The site is dedicated to Geoff Tracy, a local renowned environmentalist who died in 2004. Yungaburra has access to the southern arm of Lake Tinaroo which is popular for fishing, canoeing, sailing, swimming,

water-skiing Water skiing (also waterskiing or water-skiing) is a surface water sport in which an individual is pulled behind a boat or a cable ski installation over a body of water, skimming the surface on one or two skis. The sport requires sufficien ...

and camping. The other main places to get to Tinaroo are Kairi and the township of Tinaroo. The

, which is just out of Yungaburra, is a giant

rainforest Rainforests are forests characterized by a closed and continuous tree Canopy (biology), canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation, the presence of epiphytes and lianas and the absence of wildfire. Rainforests can be generally classified as tropi ...

fig tree ''Ficus'' ( or ) is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family (biology), family Moraceae. Collectively known as fig trees or figs, they are native throughout the tropics with a few spe ...

with roots hanging down, giving it the appearance of curtains. There is a short boardwalk around the tree. Lake Barrine and Lake Eacham are

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s, formed from

volcano A volcano is commonly defined as a vent or fissure in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most oft ...

es. Lake Eacham is popular for swimming and Lake Barrine has a

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and gift shop as well as cruises around the lake however is unsuitable for swimming due to the cruise boats. Both lakes have walking tracks around them. Lake Barrine's track is and Lake Eacham's is .

Notable people

Notable people from or who have lived in Yungaburra include: * George Alfred Duffy (1887–1941), Member of the

Queensland Legislative Assembly The Legislative Assembly of Queensland is the sole chamber of the unicameral Parliament of Queensland established under the Constitution of Queensland. Elections are held every four years and are done by full preferential voting. The Assembly h ...

for Eacham * Jim Petrich, businessman, grazing industry leadership, and Cape York economic development * Edward Stratten Williams (1921–1999), judge of the

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References

External links

Yungaburra.com
Travel Guide * *
Yungaburra Centenary of Railway and Lake Eacham Hotel 2010 Digital Story

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