Mission Beach (Queensland)

Mission Beach
Mission Beach
State :  Australia State : Queensland Founded : 1914
Coordinates : 17 ° 52 ′  S , 146 ° 6 ′  E Coordinates: 17 ° 52 ′  S , 146 ° 6 ′  E Area : 9.6  km²
Residents : 815 (2016) Population density : 85 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : AEST (UTC + 10) Postal code : 4852 LGA : Cassowary Coast Region
Mission Beach

Mission Beach is a small village on the Coral Sea in Queensland , Australia . It is four kilometers from the popular holiday island of Dunk Island .

tourism

The offshore islands of Dunk , Bedarra and Bowen as well as the famous Great Barrier Reef can be visited from here. Excursions are just as interesting, for example to one of the fruit plantations in the hinterland, or boat trips on one of the Tully or Hull rivers . On Hull there are even night trips where, with a bit of luck, the nocturnal saltwater crocodiles can be observed.

The Djiru and Clump Mountain National Park are in the vicinity .

history

Mission Beach was founded in 1914 as a mission station for the Aborigines , but it was destroyed by a cyclone after just two years . The region became famous through the landing of the explorer Edmund Kennedy in 1848, whose Cape York expedition began here.

Chinese farmers were already employing Aborigines as workers in the Tully River region at the beginning of the 20th century . Due to problems with European settlers, the government founded a kind of penal colony for Aborigines on the site of today's Mission Beach . On March 10, 1918, the small village was hit by a hurricane . The head of the village and his daughter were killed. The entire structure of the village was destroyed and only rebuilt years later.

Nowadays, Mission Beach on the Queensland coast is one of many small places where money is made primarily from tourism.

On the night of February 2nd to 3rd, 2011, the storm center of Cyclone Yasi struck land with his eye near Mission Beach and devastated the village and its surroundings so badly that the Australian media spoke of a ground zero . The nearby town of Tully and Cardwell to the south were also largely destroyed.

Web links

Commons : Mission Beach, Queensland  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

• Website of Mission Beach (English)
• Pictures from Mission Beach (German)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics : Mission Beach (L) ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
2. ↑ Ground Zero at Mission Beach Herald Sun, Melbourne - February 3, 2011