Lakeland, Queensland

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Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Template:Side box Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Lakeland is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia.[2][3] In the Template:CensusAU, the locality of Lakeland had a population of 333 people.[1]

Geography

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Road signs, 2013

Lakeland is a small farming centre on the Cape York Peninsula. It is at the junction of the main Peninsula Developmental Road (which is paved all the way from Cairns to Lakeland), and the Mulligan Highway (formerly the Cooktown Developmental Road).[4]

An area of basalt in the Lakeland region contains locally significant groundwater supplies which feed numerous springs, and also provides irrigation water and fertile soils for farming.[5]

Lakeland has the following mountains:

  • Belle View Peak (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)[6][7]
  • Hamilton Peak (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[6][8]
  • Macdonalds Hill (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[6][9]
  • Mount Amy (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[6][10]
  • Mount Byerley (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[6][11]
  • Mount Earl (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[6][12]
  • Mount Emily (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[6][13]
  • Mount Eykin (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[6][14]
  • Mount Fahey (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[6][15]
  • Mount Gibson (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[6][16]
  • Mount Herman (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[6]
  • Mount Janet (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[6][17]
  • Mount Lukin (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[6][18]
  • Mount Macdonald (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[6][19]
  • Mount Mccormack (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[6][20]
  • Mount Mclean (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[6][21]
  • Mount Murray (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[6][22]
  • Mount Pike (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[6][23]
  • Mount Scatterbrain (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[6]
  • Mount Sellheim (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[6][24]
  • North Sampson Mountain (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[6][25]
  • Racecourse Mountain (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[6][26]
  • Shields Sugarloaf (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)[6][27]
  • Tandewarrah (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[6]
  • The Brothers (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[6][28]
  • The Twins (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)[6][29]
  • Three Peaks (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)[6]
  • Zillman Peak (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[6]

History

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James Earl (24 October 1835 – 14 October 1905) of Butchers Hill, Lakeland.

Yalanji (also known as Kuku Yalanji, Kuku Yalaja, Kuku Yelandji, and Gugu Yalanji) is an Australian Aboriginal language of Far North Queensland. The traditional lands of the Western Yalanji people commence just north of the township of Lakeland and continue southwards past the southern boundary of the locality of Lakeland.[30]

James Earl was granted a lease to occupy pastoral land in March 1877. He named his station Butcher's Hill after Butcher’s Hill Farm in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England where he lived as a child. It was also known as Turalba Station. The locality was variously known as being in the Cooktown or Laura districts.[31][32] In September 1899 Earl's daughter Sarah Campbell Earl of Turalba Station married Samuel William Wellington Cook, a part owner of the adjacent Spring Vale Station.[33] These two stations comprise the majority of the current locality of Lakeland.

Mining had commenced on the West Normanby Goldfield by the end of 1874.[34] This goldfield should not be confused with the Normanby Goldfield near Bowen, which opened in 1871. Mining continued intermittently, depending on gold prices, until 1999.[35]

The Normanby Diggings Native Mounted Police camp was located on the West Normanby River just south-east of Butchers Hill and operated for 7 years between 1885 and 1892.[36]

The Normanby Reefs Post Office was renamed Earlton (Earltown) Post Office in 1890.[37] It was closed in December 1892.[38][39]

Clive J Foyster was an entrepreneur, mining company chief and farmer who bought Butchers Hill in 1968. In a private venture known as Lakeland Downs development began with the clearing of land intended for agriculture, and two irrigation dams were constructed. Dry land and irrigated cropping commenced with plantings of maize and sorghum and later of peanuts and coffee.[40][41][42] More intensive cattle grazing also commenced. Eventually Script error: No such module "convert". were cleared.[43] In the 1980s Lakeland Downs was sold, divided into freehold farms averaging about Script error: No such module "convert"..[44][30]

Lakeland Downs is named for William (Billy) Lakeland who was one of the earliest prospectors of Cape York Peninsula.[45][46] The township of Lakeland Downs came into being to service this development, and is now known as Lakeland.[41]

Butcher's Hill State School opened on 23 August 1969. The first teacher was Lorraine Woergoetter. Within two years it had been renamed Lakeland Downs State School.[47][48][40]

Demographics

In the Template:CensusAU, the locality of Lakeland had a population of 227 people.[49]

In the Template:CensusAU, the locality of Lakeland had a population of 299 people.[50]

In the Template:CensusAU, the locality of Lakeland had a population of 333 people.[1]

Heritage listings

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Stone pitching at Nuggety Gully, 2014 (mobile phone in lower left for scale)

Lakeland has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

Economy

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At Lakeland, most of the irrigation water comes from farm dams. Licenses are required to extract surface or bore water for irrigation purposes. In 2012, there were 16 licenses to impound water in the Normanby catchment, with most occurring in the Lakeland area. Many of the dams are located on small creeks. Honey Dam is the largest on Bullhead Creek, which flows into the Laura River. Dams are only permitted to store wet season run off.[52]

The main products are cattle and cropping, including bananas.[53]

In April 2022, a 10.8 MWac solar PV with a 1.4MWac/5.3MWh BESS solar farm was opened south of the township.[54][55]

Education

Lakeland State School is a government primary (Early Childhood-6) school for boys and girls on the corner of Peninsula Developmental Road and the Mulligan Highway (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".).[56][57] In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 17 students with 2 teachers and 4 non-teaching staff (2 full-time equivalent).[58]

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Cooktown orchid - Dendrobium bigibbum. Queensland 2008

There are no secondary schools in Lakeland. The nearest government secondary school is Cooktown State School in Cooktown to the north-east. Given the distances involved, distance education and boarding school are the alternatives.[4]

Environmental

The Lakeland Agricultural Area Water Quality Monitoring Program is a project to work with landowners to monitor water quality.[59]

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Northern quoll - Dasyurus hallucatus. Queensland, 2009

In 2016 the Queensland Government purchased Springvale Station, a Script error: No such module "convert". property situated in the east of the locality. Springvale Station was purchased to add to the State's protected area network and complement activities being taken to reduce sediment run-off entering the Normanby River catchment that flows into Princess Charlotte Bay and the Great Barrier Reef. The Department of Environment and Science contracted Cape York Natural Resource Management (Cape York NRM) to work with traditional owners, Griffith University, the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, and erosion, water quality and vegetation scientists to develop the Springvale Erosion Management Plan.[60][61][62]

Springvale Station Nature Refuge provides important habitat for endangered or vulnerable flora and fauna including the Cooktown orchid, ghost bat, northern quoll, red goshawk, spectacled flying-fox, spotted-tailed quoll, Semon's leaf nosed bat and large eared-horseshoe bat. There is no public access on the Nature Refuge.[60]

Amenities

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Lakeland Coffee House and Store, 2014

Lakeland has a hotel,[63] a cafe, and roadhouse[64] and a hardware store.

Attractions

James Earl Lookout is off the Mulligan Highway, Script error: No such module "convert". SSE of the town (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".).[65]

See James Earl for more information regarding the lookout namesake.

Transport

Lakeland Airport (YLND) is located north of the township, beside the Mulligan Highway.[66]

References

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Further reading

  • Trezise, P.J. 1969. Quinkan Country: Adventures in Search of Aboriginal Cave Paintings in Cape York. A.H. & A.W. Reed, Sydney.
  • Trezise, Percy. 1973. Last Days of a Wilderness. William Collins (Aust) Ltd., Brisbane. Template:ISBN.
  • Trezise, P.J. 1993. Dream Road: A Journey of Discovery. Allen & Unwin, St. Leonards, Sydney.
  • Premier's Department (prepared by Connell Wagner). 1989. Cape York Peninsula Resource Analysis. Cairns. (1989). Template:ISBN
  • Roth, W.E. 1897. The Queensland Aborigines. 3 Vols. Reprint: Facsimile Edition, Hesperian Press, Victoria Park, W.A., 1984. Template:ISBN
  • Ryan, Michelle and Burwell, Colin, eds. 2000. Wildlife of Tropical North Queensland: Cooktown to Mackay. Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Template:ISBN (set of 3 vols).
  • Scarth-Johnson, Vera. 2000. National Treasures: Flowering plants of Cooktown and Northern Australia. Vera Scarth-Johnson Gallery Association, Cooktown. Template:ISBN (pbk); Template:ISBN Limited Edition - Leather Bound.
  • Sutton, Peter (ed). Languages of Cape York: Papers presented to a Symposium organised by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra. (1976). Template:ISBN
  • Wynter, Jo and Hill, John. 1991. Cape York Peninsula: Pathways to Community Economic Development. The Final Report of The Community Economic Development Projects Cook Shire. Cook Shire Council.

External links

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