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Kowanyama
Queenslandvillage
Kowanyama
Total population
1,079
Demographic figures from Australian Bureau of Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
Overview
Kowanyama is a town and coastal locality in the Aboriginal Shire of Kowanyama, Queensland, Australia. It is the site of the former Mitchell River Mission, founded in 1916, after the nearby Trubanamen Mission was abandoned. In the 2021 census, the locality of Kowanyama had a population of 1,079 people.
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History
Kunjen (also known as Koko Wanggara, Ngundjan and Olkola) is a language of Western Cape York. The Kunjen language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of Kowanyama Community Council and Cook Shire Council. The name Kowanyama means "the place of many waters". Since the beginning of 2014, the school has also started to enrol students in a year 11 and 12 pathways program. In 1905, Trubanamen Mission was established inland on Topsy Creek, and Aboriginal peoples of the region were gradually drawn from their ancestral lands into the mission settlement. Later, in 1916, Mitchell River Mission was founded on the present site of Kowanyama and the Trubanamen site abandoned. Some people continued to live on their traditional lands, only moving into Kowanyama in the 1940s. In 1964, Tropical Cyclone Dora destroyed the mission. The Queensland Government funded the rebuilding. Kowanyama Post Office opened by 1967. In 1967 the Anglican church were no longer able to sustain their activities in the area as a Church Mission. The Department of Aboriginal and Islander Affairs, a government department, under the Act continued running the affairs of the community. In July 1987, the State Government of Queensland implemented legislation for a DOGIT (Deed of Grant in Trust) over the lands in the Mitchell River delta, an area of . The deed covered the traditional lands of the people of Kowanyama. Like other DOGIT communities of the time, Kowanyama had a town Council elected by Aboriginal people living in the community. The newly formed Kowanyama Council assumed responsibility for implementing certain conditions of the DOGIT. Seven elected aboriginal residents hold three-year terms in office. Since the 1990s, many Kowanyama people have been returning to…
Geography
The locality is on the Cape York Peninsula. It is bounded to the west by the Gulf of Carpentaria and to the north by the Coleman River (). The locality of Kowanyama (and the Aboriginal Shire of Kowanyama which has the same boundaries) has a land area of . The community is situated on the banks of the Magnificent Creek, a tributary of the Mitchell River, inland from the coastline of the Gulf of Carpentaria. Kowanyama is accessed by an all-weather airstrip, as well as unsealed roads in the dry season from Pormpuraaw to the north, Normanton to the south and Cairns to the east.
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Nearby places in Queensland
- Pormpuraaw40.7 mi away · pop. 606
- Karumba151.4 mi away · pop. 487
- Normanton158 mi away · pop. 1,326
- Strathmore173.4 mi away
- Njinjilki182.6 mi away
- Croydon191.4 mi away
- Lakeland208.7 mi away
- Burketown213.7 mi away · pop. 167
- Georgetown228 mi away · pop. 222
- Rossville235 mi away
- Mount Carbine236.6 mi away
- Bramwell Junction240 mi away
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Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • USGS Earthquake Catalog (global feed)
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Open Library