Tam O'Shanter, Queensland explained

Type:suburb
Tam O'Shanter
State:qld
Coordinates:-17.9138°N 146.0616°W
Pop:0
Postcode:4852
Area:20.6
Timezone:AEST
Utc:+10:00
Dist1:8.2
Dir1:SW
Location1:Mission Beach
Dist2:20.1
Dir2:E
Location2:Tully
Dist3:56.6
Dir3:S
Location3:Innisfail
Dist4:144
Dir4:S
Location4:Cairns
Dist5:1584
Dir5:NNW
Location5:Brisbane
Lga:Cassowary Coast Region
Stategov:Hill
Fedgov:Kennedy
Near-N:Djiru
Near-Ne:Wongaling Beach
Near-E:Wongaling Beach
Near-Se:South Mission Beach
Near-S:Carmoo
Near-Sw:Mount Mackay
Near-W:Granadilla
Near-Nw:Granadilla

Tam O'Shanter is a rural locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.[1] In the, Tam O'Shanter had "no people or a very low population".

Geography

Mount Tam O'Shanter (-17.9129°N 146.0394°W) is at the westernmost point of the locality, rising to .[2] [3] From the mountain, the locality is bounded to the south-west by the Tam O'Shanter Range.

The locality is entirely within a number of protected areas, mostly within the Djiru National Park but with a small area in the south-east of the locality being within the Tam O'Shanter Forest Reserve.

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 after the barque Tam O'Shanter, which carried Edmund Kennedy's ill-fated expedition to North Queensland in 1848.[4] TheTam O'Shanter, of 270 tons (bm) and homeport Liverpool, had been launched at Workington in 1836.[5]

Demographics

In the, Tam O'Shanter had "no people or a very low population".

In the, Tam O'Shanter had "no people or a very low population".

Notes and References

  1. 24 May 2019.
  2. Web site: 12 November 2020. Mountain peaks and capes - Queensland. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20201125215033/https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/geographic-features-queensland-series/resource/06ff12a9-862e-4aac-bf9d-693f0a63b4c9. 25 November 2020. 25 November 2020. Queensland Open Data. Queensland Government.
  3. 25 November 2020.
  4. 3 June 2019.
  5. Lloyd's Register (1848), Seq.№T13.