Moore Park Beach

History

On 3 January 1961, the town and locality were named by Queensland Place Names Board after grazier Isaac Moore of Barambah station in the South Burnett.

Geography

Moore Park Beach is on the Coral Sea, by road north of the city of Bundaberg. It is bordered to the north and north-west by the Kolan River, to the south by the suburbs of Moorland and Welcome Creek, and on the east by Fairymead. Moore Park Beach is a sandy beach () which extends the entire length of the locality's coastline and beyond to Fairymead. The most northern part of the locality is protected within the Mouth of Kolan River Conservation Park (). It is . The residential land is in two areas, the coastal strip with predominantly suburban-sized house lots and an area in the west of the locality accessed via Malvern Drive featuring larger rural residential land parcels. The far south-east of the locality is undeveloped marshland. The remainder of the locality is used for farming, predominantly growing sugarcane.

Most-observed species

• Australian Ibis

  Threskiornis molucca (Cuvier, 1829) · Aves
  2,508
• Willie-wagtail

  Rhipidura leucophrys (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  2,458
• Masked Lapwing

  Vanellus miles (Boddaert, 1783) · Aves
  2,421
• Magpie-lark

  Grallina cyanoleuca (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  2,384
• Rainbow Lorikeet

  Trichoglossus haematodus (Linnaeus, 1771) · Aves
  2,363
• Australasian Figbird

  Sphecotheres vieilloti Vigors & Horsfield, 1827 · Aves
  2,330
• Noisy Miner

  Manorina melanocephala (Latham, 1801) · Aves
  2,282
• Australian Magpie

  Gymnorhina tibicen (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  2,274