White Rock, Queensland (Cairns Region)

White Rock is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.[2]

For the suburb in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, see White Rock, Queensland (Ipswich).

White Rock
Cairns, Queensland
Minniecon / Mundi Gunjii Park
White Rock
Coordinates16.9794°S 145.7569°E / -16.9794; 145.7569 (White Rock (centre of suburb))
Population4,730 (2016 census)[1]
 • Density473.0/km2 (1,225/sq mi)
Postcode(s)4868
Area10.0 km2 (3.9 sq mi)
Location8 km (5 mi) S of Cairns CBD
LGA(s)Cairns Region
State electorate(s)Mulgrave
Federal Division(s)Leichhardt
Suburbs around White Rock:
Woree Woree Portsmith
Mount Sheridan White Rock Portsmith
Mount Sheridan Edmonton Edmonton

Geography

The Bruce Highway and the North Coast Railway Line form the western boundary of the suburb with Skeleton Creek and Smiths Creek (tributaries of the Trinity Inlet) forming the southern and eastern boundary respectively.[3]

History

White Rock is situated in the Yidinji traditional Aboriginal country. [4] The geographical feature of White Rock is also known as Jirriwanday in the Yidiny Aboriginal language.[5] The origin of the suburb name is from a historical railway station named after a geographical feature located in Lamb Range.[6]

On 11 January 1939 at the Lands Office in Cairns the Queensland Government auctioned 25 suburban lots mostly of about 2 roods (22,000 sq ft; 2,000 m2) about 16.9806°S 145.7452°E / -16.9806; 145.7452 (1939 land sale) to the north of the former White Rock railway station (16.9842°S 145.7428°E / -16.9842; 145.7428 (White Rock (Jirriwanday) railway station)).[7]

Trinity Anglican School opened its White Rock Campus on 25 January 1983.[8]

White Rock State School opened on 25 January 1988.[8]

Education

Trinity Anglican School caters for students from Kindergarten through to Year 12; it has another campus at Kewarra Beach.

White Rock State School is a government co-educational primary school (P-6) on Progress Road. In 2016, the school had an enrolment of 522 students with 39 teachers (35 full-time equivalent) and 28 non-teaching staff (19 full-time equivalent).[9]

References
  1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "White Rock (Cairns - Qld) (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  2. "White Rock - suburb in Cairns Region (entry 48932)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  3. "Queensland Globe". State of Queensland. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
  4. "First people cultural history". Cairns Regional Council. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  5. "Cairns Heritage: W Suburbs" (PDF). Cairns Regional Council. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 April 2020. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  6. "Cairns Heritage: W Suburbs" (PDF). Cairns Regional Council. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 April 2020. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  7. "Plan of allotments in section 204, town of Cairns, parish of Cairns county of Nares, Cairns land agent's district, Cairns City Council". State Library of Queensland (Real estate map). 1936. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  8. Queensland Family History Society (2010), Queensland schools past and present (Version 1.01 ed.), Queensland Family History Society, ISBN 978-1-921171-26-0
  9. "Annual Report 2016" (PDF). White Rock State School. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 September 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
  • "White Rock". Queensland Places. Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland.


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