St Helens Beach, Queensland

Town in Queensland, Australia
20°50′09″S 148°50′26″E / 20.8358°S 148.8405°E / -20.8358; 148.8405 (St Helens Beach (town centre))Population175 (2021 census)[1] • Density4.476/km2 (11.59/sq mi)Postcode(s)4798Area39.1 km2 (15.1 sq mi)Time zoneAEST (UTC+10:00)LGA(s)Mackay RegionState electorate(s)WhitsundayFederal division(s)Dawson
Localities around St Helens Beach:
Mentmore Mentmore Coral Sea
Pindi Pindi St Helens Beach Coral Sea
Calen Calen Coral Sea

St Helens Beach is a coastal town and locality in the Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia.[2][3] In the 2021 census, the locality of St Helens Beach had a population of 175 people.[1]

History

Yuwibara (also known as Yuibera, Yuri, Juipera, Yuwiburra) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken on Yuwibara country. It is closely related to the Biri languages/dialects. The Yuwibara language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Mackay Region.[4]

Giya (also known as Kia) is a language of North Queensland. The Giya language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Whitsunday Regional Council, particularly the towns of Bowen and Proserpine.[5]

The town was originally known as Wootaroo but was changed to St Helens by the Queensland Place Names Board on 1 April 1973 and then changed from St Helens to St Helens Beach on 2 September 1989. St Helens was the name of a pastoral run founded by pastoralists R. W. Graham and brothers John and William Macartney in the 1870s.[6] The word beach is a reference to the sandy beach along the coastline of the Coral Sea.[2]

Demographics

In the 2016 census, the locality of St Helens Beach had a population of 197 people.[7]

In the 2021 census, the locality of St Helens Beach had a population of 175 people.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "St Helens Beach (SAL)". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 28 February 2023. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b "St Helens Beach – town in Mackay Region (entry 40893)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  3. ^ "St Helens Beach – locality in Mackay Region (entry 46841)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  4. ^ This Wikipedia article incorporates CC-BY-4.0 licensed text from: "Yuwibara". Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages map. State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  5. ^ This Wikipedia article incorporates CC-BY-4.0 licensed text from: "Indigenous languages map of Queensland". State Library of Queensland. State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  6. ^ "District Place Names". Daily Mercury. Vol. 56, no. 562. Queensland, Australia. 9 December 1922. p. 8. Retrieved 7 September 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "St Helens Beach (SSC)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 20 October 2018. Edit this at Wikidata

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Towns, suburbs and localities in the Mackay Region, Queensland