Tam O'Shanter, Queensland

Tam O'Shanter is a locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.[2] In the 2016 census, Tam O'Shanter had a population of 0 people.[1]

Tam O'Shanter
Queensland
Tam O'Shanter
Coordinates17.9138°S 146.0616°E / -17.9138; 146.0616
Population0 (2016 census)[1]
 • Density0.000/km2 (0.00/sq mi)
Postcode(s)4852
Area20.6 km2 (8.0 sq mi)
LGA(s)Cassowary Coast Region
State electorate(s)Hill
Federal Division(s)Kennedy
Suburbs around Tam O'Shanter:
Granadilla Djiru Wongaling Beach
Granadilla Tam O'Shanter Wongaling Beach
Mount Mackay Carmoo South Mission Beach

History

The locality presumably takes its name from Tam O'Shanter Point on the coastline nearby. The point was named by Captain Owen Stanley of HMS Rattlesnake after the barque Tam O'Shanter, which carried Edmund Kennedy's ill-fated expedition to North Queensland in 1848.[3][Note 1]

Notes

  1. Tam O'Shanter, of 270 tons (bm) and homeport Liverpool, had been launched at Workington in 1836.[4]
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