Palm Cove

Palm Cove
Palm Cove Beach
State :  Australia State : Queensland City : Cairns
Coordinates : 16 ° 45 ′  S , 145 ° 40 ′  E Coordinates: 16 ° 45 ′  S , 145 ° 40 ′  E Area : 3.6  km²
Residents : 2,059 (2016) Population density : 572 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 4879 LGA : Cairns
Palm Cove

Palm Cove is a tourist resort in the Australian state of Queensland with 2059 inhabitants (as of 2016).

geography

Palm Cove is approximately 20 kilometers north of Cairns and 1412 kilometers north of Brisbane . The place is surrounded in the west by the MacAlister Range and in the east by the Pacific Ocean , in the south it borders on the neighboring town of Clifton Beach . To the northeast of Palm Cove is the small island Double Island with the offshore reefs Double Island Reef and Haycock Reef .

The two-kilometer-long beach at Palm Cove lies between the headland of Buchan Point and Clifton Beach .

In the center of the village is the small Tom McDonald Park .

history

Palm Cove was founded in the late 19th century. First, the Buchan family established an orchard there. This also included a beach called Palm Beach . In another representation, Archdeacon Campbell is said to have been the first European to settle in the area. He owned 200 acre land, which he before World War Albert Veivers (or Vievers) for 200 pounds sold. By 1900, the Palm Cove area was a military training ground. Between the 1920s and 1950s, the Vievers family built buildings near the beach. Annual sporting events and rodeo days were later held. Since the place names Palm Beach already existed in Queensland and New South Wales , the place was renamed Palm Cove in 1980. The first holiday homes were built in 1958, followed by a caravan park and a jetty. When Cairns Airport was built, more holiday homes and resorts were built.

population

Palm Cove had 2,059 residents in 2016, of whom 1,001 were male and 1,063 were female. The average age was 49 years, 11 years above the Australian average of 38 years. 12.7% of the population were under 14 years of age. With 39 people, indigenous inhabitants made up 1.9% of the Palm Cove population.

There were 567 families in Palm Cove with an average of 0.4 children. On average, a household consisted of 2.1 people.

The largest ethnic groups in Palm Cove are English with 29.3%, Australians with 21.0%, Irish with 9.5%, Scots with 9.0% and Germans with 4.9%.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Australian Bureau of Statistics : Palm Cove ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Palm Cove , on queenslandplaces.com.au. Retrieved September 8, 2016
3. ^ Palm Cove History , on palmcoveaustralia.com. accessed on September 8, 2016