Australian Towns & Cities: Queensland: Cairns

Australian Towns & Cities
Queensland: Cairns
Incorporating photos and Information from Michael Greenslade's former Australian Towns, Cities and Highways site

Cairns is a city in far north Queensland. The city is the 5th-most-populous in Queensland, and 14th in Australia.

Cairns was founded in 1876 and named after Sir William Wellington Cairns, the Governor of Queensland from 1875 to 1877. The city has developed into a railhead and major port for exporting sugar cane, gold, minerals and agricultural products and is a popular tourist destination because of its tropical climate and access to tropical rainforest and the Great Barrier Reef, one of the seven natural wonders of the world. Prior to British settlement, the Cairns area was inhabited by the Gimuy Walubara Yidinji people.

Population: 144 730 1
Postcode: 4870
Location: 1701 km northwest of Brisbane and 1679 km east of Darwin
Main Roads: Bruce Hwy A1 and Captain Cook Hwy
Radio Stations: FM: ABC Classic (94.7 MHz and 105.9 MHz), ABC Far North (95.5 MHz and 106.7 MHz), ABC News on Radio (96.3 MHz and 101.1 MHz), ABC RN (93.9 MHz and 105.1 MHz), Bumma Bippera Radio (98.7 MHz), Cairns FM (89.1 MHz), Coast FM (101.9 MHz), Hit 103.5 (103.5 MHz), Orbit FM (87.8 and 88.0 MHz), Radio TAB (104.3 MHz), SBS Radio (90.5 MHz), Star (102.7 MHz), Triple J (107.5 MHz), Triple M (97.1 MHz and 99.5 MHz) and Vision Christian Radio (87.6 MHz). AM: ABC Far North (801 kHz), ABC North Queensland (630 kHz) and 4CA (846 kHz)

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	Cairns Esplanade Lagoon: View of the Cairns Esplanade Lagoon in the CBD, November 2016. Image © Michael Greenslade
	Cairns Esplanade Lagoon: View of the Cairns Esplanade Lagoon in the CBD, November 2016. Image © Michael Greenslade
	Cairns Esplanade Lagoon: View of the Cairns Esplanade Lagoon in the CBD, November 2016. Image © Michael Greenslade

1 Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2016 Census Quickstats, Cairns UCL

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