Mount Jukes
Queensland
The house "Inglenook" with the mountain in the background, 1909
Mount Jukes is located in Queensland
Mount Jukes
Mount Jukes
Coordinates20°58′50″S 148°58′18″E / 20.9805°S 148.9716°E / -20.9805; 148.9716 (Mount Jukes (centre of locality))
Postcode(s)4740
Area75.3 km2 (29.1 sq mi)
Time zoneAEST (UTC+10:00)
Location
LGA(s)Mackay Region
State electorate(s)Whitsunday
Federal division(s)Dawson
Suburbs around Mount Jukes:
Seaforth Ball Bay Cape Hillsborough
Belmunda
Kuttabul Mount Jukes Coral Sea
Kuttabul Kuttabul The Leap

Mount Jukes is a mountain and surrounding coastal rural locality north of Mackay in the Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia.[1][2] In the 2021 census, Mount Jukes had a population of 373 people.[3]

Geography

The locality is bounded to the east by the Coral Sea, to the south-east by Constant Creek which flows into the Coral Sea, and to the south-west by Nielson Creek, a tributary of Constant Creek.[4]

There are three sections of the Pioneer Peaks National Park in the west, south-west and south of the locality.[5][4]

The mountain Mount Jukes is located in the south-west of the locality (20°59′52″S 148°56′57″E / 20.9978°S 148.9492°E / -20.9978; 148.9492 (Mount Jukes (Queensland))) within the south-western section of the national park and the Central Mackay Coast IBRA Region.[5] It rises to 547 metres (1,795 ft) above sea level and is composed of igneous rock that has been weathered and eroded.[6][7]

Mount Adder is another mountain within the western section of the national park (20°59′00″S 148°55′08″E / 20.9834°S 148.9188°E / -20.9834; 148.9188 (Mount Adder)) rising to 380 metres (1,250 ft).[6][8] The mountains originated from volcanic activity approximately 32 million years ago.[9]

Apart from the national parks, the land use is a mixture of crop growing (mostly sugarcane), grazing on native vegetation and rural residential housing.[4]

Offshore is Sand Bay (20°57′00″S 149°03′14″E / 20.950°S 149.054°E / -20.950; 149.054 (Sand Bay)).[10][11]

Yakapari-Seaforth Road enters the locality from the south (Kuttabul) and exits to the north-west (Seaforth).[4] There is a network of cane tramways in the locality to transport the harvested sugarcane to the local sugar mills operated by Mackay Sugar.[4]

Mount Jukes has a species of shrubs growing in its trees called the Mount Blackwood holly (Graptophyllum ilicifolium), a species only found in Mount Blackwood area.[12]

History

Mount Jukes was named by George Elphinstone Dalrymple in 1862 after geologist Joseph Beete Jukes, who served as a naturalist on the explorations of HMS Fly from 1842 to 1846.[1]

In 1896, Harold Forster Blaxland had purchased land on Mount Jukes to open a coffee plantation. Eight acres of coffee plants were planted in 1897 and a further seven was planted in the following years. Due to financial struggles the coffee plantation closed in 1919.[13]

Demographics

In the 2016 census, Mount Jukes had a population of 394 people.[14]

In the 2021 census, Mount Jukes had a population of 373 people.[3]

Education

There are no schools in Mount Jukes. The nearest government primary schools are Seaforth State School in neighbouring Seaforth to the north-west and Hampden State School in neighbouring Hampden to the south. The nearest government secondary schools is Mackay North State High School in North Mackay to the south-east.[15]

Amenities

There is a boat ramp in Howell's Road into Constant Creek (21°00′35″S 148°59′51″E / 21.0097°S 148.9974°E / -21.0097; 148.9974 (Howell's Road boat ramp)). It is managed by the Mackay Regional Council.[16]

See also

References

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  1. 1 2 "Mount Jukes – mountain in Mackay Region (entry 17422)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
  2. ↑ "Mount Jukes – locality in Mackay Region (entry 46810)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  3. 1 2 Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Mount Jukes (SAL)". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Queensland Globe". State of Queensland. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  5. 1 2 "Pioneer Peaks National Park". WetlandInfo. Department of Environment and Heritage Protection. Archived from the original on 22 September 2017. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  6. 1 2 "Mountain peaks and capes - Queensland". Queensland Open Data. Queensland Government. 12 November 2020. Archived from the original on 25 November 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  7. ↑ "Kuttabul". Queensland Places. Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland. Archived from the original on 5 August 2017. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  8. ↑ "Mount Adder – mountain in Mackay Region (entry 112)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  9. ↑ "Cape Hillsborough, Pioneer Peaks, Mount Ossa, Mount Martin and Reliance Creek National Parks and adjoining State Waters Management Plan" (PDF). Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service. 2011. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 May 2018. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  10. ↑ "Sand Bay – bay in the Mackay Region (entry 29571)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  11. ↑ "Bays - Queensland". Queensland Open Data. Queensland Government. 12 November 2020. Archived from the original on 25 November 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  12. ↑ "Mount Blackwood Holly" (PDF). Mackay Regional Botanic Gardens. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 March 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  13. ↑ Hillier, Reuben (1 November 2018). "Mt Jukes Coffee Plantation". State Library Of Queensland. Archived from the original on 18 August 2022. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
  14. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Mount Jukes (SSC)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  15. ↑ "Layers: Locality; Schools and school catchments". Queensland Globe. Queensland Government. Archived from the original on 19 December 2017. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  16. ↑ "Recreational Boating Facilities Queensland". Queensland Open Data. Queensland Government. 12 November 2020. Archived from the original on 22 November 2020. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
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