St Helens Beach
Queensland
St Helens Beach is located in Queensland
St Helens Beach
St Helens Beach
Coordinates20°50′09″S 148°50′26″E / 20.8358°S 148.8405°E / -20.8358; 148.8405 (St Helens Beach (town centre))
Population197 (2016 census locality)[1]
 • Density5.038/km2 (13.05/sq mi)
Postcode(s)4798
Area39.1 km2 (15.1 sq mi)
Time zoneAEST (UTC+10:00)
LGA(s)Mackay Region
State electorate(s)Whitsunday
Federal division(s)Dawson
Localities around St Helens Beach:
Mentmore Mentmore Coral Sea
Pindi Pindi St Helens Beach Coral Sea
Calen Calen Coral Sea

St Helens Beach is a coastal town and locality in the Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia.[2][3] In the 2016 census the locality of St Helens Beach had a population of 197 people.[1]

History

Yuwibara (also known as Yuibera, Yuri, Juipera, Yuwiburra) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken on Yuwibara country. It is closely related to the Biri languages/dialects. The Yuwibara language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Mackay Region.[4]

Giya (also known as Kia) is a language of North Queensland. The Giya language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Whitsunday Regional Council, particularly the towns of Bowen and Proserpine.[5]

The town was originally known as Wootaroo but was changed to St Helens by the Queensland Place Names Board on 1 April 1973 and then changed from St Helens to St Helens Beach on 2 September 1989. St Helens was the name of a pastoral run founed by pastoralists R. W. Graham and brothers John and William Macartney in the 1870s.[6] The word beach is a reference to the sandy beach along the coastline of the Coral Sea.[2]

In the 2016 census the locality of St Helens Beach had a population of 197 people.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "St Helens Beach (SSC)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  2. 1 2 "St Helens Beach – town in Mackay Region (entry 40893)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  3. ↑ "St Helens Beach – locality in Mackay Region (entry 46841)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  4. ↑ This Wikipedia article incorporates CC-BY-4.0 licensed text from: "Yuwibara". Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages map. State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  5. ↑ This Wikipedia article incorporates CC-BY-4.0 licensed text from: "Indigenous languages map of Queensland". State Library of Queensland. State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  6. ↑ "District Place Names". Daily Mercury. Vol. 56, no. 562. Queensland, Australia. 9 December 1922. p. 8. Retrieved 7 September 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
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