Atherton, Queensland
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Atherton is a rural town and locality in the Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the locality of Atherton had a population of 7,724 people.
The main street of Atherton
Atherton War Memorial in the main street, 1928
Atherton streets in 2006
John Atherton (pioneer)
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John Atherton was an English-born overlander, grazier, and explorer whose pastoral and transport enterprises contributed to the European settlement of Far North Queensland. He established Emerald End
Atherton, Queensland
…as Cairns, Gordonvale, and the Mulgrave River, and the southern part of the Atherton Tableland including Atherton and Kairi. The town was named after John Atherton, a pioneer pastoralist who settled at Mareeba (then known as Emerald End) in 1875. The area was formerly known as Priors Pocket or Priors Creek. It was…
Chillagoe in 1905
John Atherton