Kimberley, Queensland

Kimberley is a coastal locality in the Shire of Douglas, Queensland, Australia. In the, Kimberley had a population of 28 people.

Geography

The locality is bounded to the south by the Daintree River and to the south-east, east, and north-east by the Coral Sea.
Cape Tribulation Road enters the locality from the west and meanders through the centre of the locality and then exits to the north-west.
Much of the locality is within the Daintree National Park. Other land uses includes grazing on native vegetation and horticulture.
The locality has a number of coastal and off-shore features :

Cow Bay, a side bay of Trinity Bay, named after the dugongs which inhabit the bay
Cape Kimberley, named after the first Earl of Kimberley who was Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1870 to 1874 and from 1880 1882
Penguin Channel, probably named after which did Great Barrier Reef hydrographic surveys in the late 1800s
Halls Point
Snapper Island, a marine island

History

The locality takes its name from Cape Kimberley, which in turn was named on 24 October 1873 after John Wodehouse, First Earl of Kimberley by explorer George Elphinstone Dalrymple.
The town of Kimberley was surveyed in December 1886 and later renamed the town of Whitby, after the town in England from which James Cook set sail in. The town was abandoned in the late 1800s. It was located on the northern bank of the Daintree River.

Demographics

In the, Kimberley had a population of 33 people.
In the, Kimberley had a population of 28 people.

Education

There are no schools in Kimberley. The nearest government primary school is Alexandra Bay State School in Diwan to the north. The nearest government secondary school is Mossman State High School in Mossman to the south. There is also a Catholic primary school in Mossman.

Attractions

Walu Wugirriga Lookout is on Cape Tribulation Road. It provides views across the mouth of the Daintree River and beyond to Snapper Island and the Low Isles.