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Yorkeys Knob

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Cairns Regional Council QLD, PO Box 359, Yorkeys Knob, QLD 4878
07 4044 3044

Description

Yorkeys Knob is a coastal suburb of Cairns, in Cairns Region, Far North Queensland, Australia.

Yorkeys Knob is a coastal suburb of Cairns, in Cairns Region, Far North Queensland, Australia. It is approximately 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) north of the centre of Cairns, and is the third beach suburb after Machans Beach and Holloways Beach.

History

Yorkeys Knob is situated in the Djabugay (Tjapukai) traditional Aboriginal country.Yorkeys Knob got its name from George Lawson, a Yorkshire-born, Cairns-based beche-de-mer fisherman. (From the nickname Yorkey, and the Hill being the "Knob".)

On 10 June 1886 Yorkey Lawson reported the loss of a man and his wife from Green Island. They had left to visit the wreck of the Upolu, intending to return the same day. Lawson made a search for them, but was unable to find any trace of them, not even an accident. The pilot cutter was sent to search for the couple.Lawson built a homestead adjoining the Mount Buchan estate near what is now Yorkeys Knob. During the off-fishing season he and his sons farmed pumpkins, sweet potatoes and paddy melons, but not successfully. Whatever the bandicoots and pigs didn't eat, the crocodiles did. Lawson used the mangroves near his homestead for the firewood and water needed for his beche-de-mer smoking station on Green Island.

Locals are attached to the name, despite the reaction it sometimes gets ("knob" being a slang term for penis), and successfully prevented a developer from advertising a development as being at "Yorkeys Beach".

At the 2011 census, the population of Yorkeys Knob was 2,766.

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Type: Suburbs

Population: 1001-10000

Time zone: UTC +10:00

Area: 11.326 km2

Elevation: 4-10 metres

Town elevation: 9 m

Population number: 2,759

Local Government Area: Cairns Regional Council

Location

Cairns Regional Council QLD, PO Box 359, Yorkeys Knob, QLD 4878

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This article contains content imported from the English Wikipedia article on Yorkeys Knob, Queensland

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