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Mainland communities and reserves

The following brief histories provide researchers with information about the creation of missions and reserves in Queensland.

A-B | C | D-E | F-G |H-KL-M | N-Q | R-T | U-Z

* See the pdf version [new window Document in PDF format 93 kb] with full bibliographic references 

A-B

Aurukun
Aitkenvale see Townsville
Bamaga
Barambah (Cherbourg)
Batavia River - see Mapoon
Bellenden Ker - see Yarrabah
Bellenden Plains - see Fraser Island
Bethesda (Beenleigh) - see also Nerang
Birdsville
Bloomfield River Mission - see Wujal Wujal
Boggy Creek Run (Laura River)
Bogimbah Creek - see Fraser Island
Boulia
Bowen
Box Hill Runs - see Georgetown
Bribie Island
Brisbane - Aboriginal Girls Home
Bunya Country
Burketown

C


Cairns - Lyons Street and English Street Reserves - see also Queerah Aboriginal Mission
Camooweal
Cape Bedford - see Hopevale
Cape Grafton - see Yarrabah
Cape York Settlement
Charters Towers
Cherbourg - see Barambah
Chillagoe
Cloncurry
Coen
Collinsville
Cooktown
Cowal Creek - see Injinoo
Croydon

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D-E

Daintree River Mission
Dajarra
Dalby
Deebing Creek - see also Purga
Doomadgee
Durundur
Edward River - see Pormpuraaw
Elim - see Hopevale
Embley River - see Weipa
Eulo

F-G

Fantome Island 
Fitzroy Island
Foleyvale
Fraser Island
Gayndah
Georgetown
Gorge Mission (Mossman)
Gregory Downs

H-K

Halifax Bay
Herberton
Hinchinbrook Island - see Fraser Island
Hopevale (Cape Bedford)
Hughenden
Hull River
Injinoo
Kowanyama (formerly Mitchell River Mission)

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L-M

Laura
Laura River - see Boggy Creek Run
Lockhart River
Lloyd Bay - see Lockhart River
Mackay
Mapoon
Mareeba
Marie Yamba
Mitchel (East)
Mitchell River - see Kowanyama
Mona Mona
Moreton Bay - see Zion Hill
Mornington Island
Mount Carbine
Mount Garnet
Mount Isa
Myora - see Stradbroke Island

N-Q

Nerang
New Castle Bay (Cape York Peninsula)
Noosa - see Fraser Island
Normanton
Palm Island
Pascoe River - see Lockhart River
Pormpuraaw (Edward River)
Purga -  see also Deebing Creek
Queerah Aboriginal Mission

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R-T

Ravenshoe
Rocky Island
Seisia
Small River - see Injinoo
Somerset
South Brisbane - see Brisbane Aboriginal Girls Home
Stradbroke Island (Myora)
Stuart Creek
Sweers Island
Taroom
Townsville
Traubanaman - see Kowanyama
Tully River

U-Z

Umagico
Weipa
Wellesley Islands
Whitula Station
Woorabinda
Wujal Wujal
Yarrabah (Cape Grafton)
Yungaburra
Zamia Creek
Zion Hill

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Last updated: 5th October 2011

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