Mount Jukes Queensland | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 20°58′50″S 148°58′18″E / 20.9805°S 148.9716°E | ||||||||||||||
Population | 373 ( 2021 census) [1] | ||||||||||||||
• Density | 4.954/km2 (12.830/sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 4740 | ||||||||||||||
Area | 75.3 km2 (29.1 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
Time zone | AEST ( UTC+10:00) | ||||||||||||||
Location |
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LGA(s) | Mackay Region | ||||||||||||||
State electorate(s) | Whitsunday | ||||||||||||||
Federal division(s) | Dawson | ||||||||||||||
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Mount Jukes is a mountain and surrounding coastal rural locality north of Mackay in the Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia. [2] [3] In the 2021 census, Mount Jukes had a population of 373 people. [1]
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) 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) 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). [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]
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. [2]
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]
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. [1]
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]
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). It is managed by the Mackay Regional Council. [16]