Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Innisfail State College is a government primary and secondary (Early Childhood-12) school for boys and girls at 45 Flying Fish Point Road (12] [13] In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 856 students with 85 teachers (81 full-time equivalent) and 57 non-teaching staff (43 full-time equivalent). [14]
Innisfail's town centre is situated at the junction of the Johnstone River and South Johnstone River, approximately 5 km (3 mi) from the coast. [10] It is located near large tracts of old-growth tropical rainforest surrounded by vast areas of extensive farmlands.
George Augustus Frederick Elphinstone Dalrymple (6 May 1826 – 22 January 1876) [1] was a colonist, explorer, public servant and politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. He founded the towns of Bowen and Cardwell, and pioneered the opening up of the Herbert, Burdekin, Johnstone and Daintree River regions to British ...
East Innisfail is a suburban locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. [2] In the 2021 census , East Innisfail had a population of 1,757 people. [ 1 ]
On the Liverpool Creek near Japoonvale (between Tully and Innisfail) The Cassowary Coast Region is a local government area in the Far North Queensland region of Queensland, Australia, south of Cairns and centred on the towns of Innisfail, Cardwell and Tully. It was created in 2008 from a merger of the Shire of Cardwell and the Shire of Johnstone.
Innisfail Estate Sundown is a rural locality in the Cassowary Coast Region , Queensland , Australia. [ 2 ] In the 2021 census , Sundown had a population of 145 people.
The Innisfail area was settled by cedar-cutters, with the first major planting of sugar cane occurring in 1880. The town was laid out at the junction of the South Johnstone and North Johnstone Rivers in 1881, and was known as Junction Point. The name of the town was changed to Geraldton in 1883, and to Innisfail in 1910. [1]
A few miles inland from the landing site was an Aboriginal village and bora ground surrounded by native banana plantations that reminded Dalrymple of villages in Ceylon. The Warrgamay people in the area and on nearby Hinchinbrook Island were described as numerous and having some of the largest spears, shields and wooden swords ever recorded in ...