Eimeo

Eimeo is a coastal town and suburb in the Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia.

Eimeo is a coastal town and suburb in the Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census the suburb of Eimeo had a population of 3,230 people.

The name Eimeo was derived from selection name used by Jeremiah Downs Armitage, an early settler in the 1870s, after his birthplace Moorea (also called Eimeo) in Tahiti. His father Elijah Armitage was a missionary in the South Seas.

Armitage engaged in many occupations, including timber cutting, fruit growing and operating a boarding house and/or hotel.Armitage's lasting legacy to the area is the avenue of mango trees he planted, probably in the 1880s, to delineate the track leading from the main Mackay access road, through his property, to his boarding house/hotel.These trees survive to the present day and are listed on the Queensland Heritage Register.Palm Avenue is also a significant and well known feature of the suburb.Eimeo Road State School opened on 5 February 1934. It is the largest primary school in the Whitsunday Region, Mackay Region and Isaac Region but is no longer within the boundaries of the Eimeo but within the neighbouring suburb of Rural View.

In the 1930s a roller skating rink was established next to the hotel.

Eimeo Post Office opened on 24 January 1949 and closed in 1972.The present Eimeo Pacific Hotel was built in 1954 on the site of Armitage's boarding house.At the 2011 census, Eimeo had a population of 3,309.In the 2016 census the suburb of Eimeo had a population of 3,230 people.