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
Chillagoe in 1905
John Atherton
Barron River (Queensland)
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The Barron River rises on the Atherton Tablelands inland from Cairns in North Queensland, Australia. With its headwaters in Upper Barron, it flows through Lake Tinaroo, and the Barron Gorge, and event
John Atherton (pioneer)
…him to overland cattle into Far North Queensland during the 1870s. After briefly occupying Basalt Downs, he settled permanently at Emerald End on the Barron River, from where he explored the surrounding tablelands, shortened the route between Atherton, Queensland and Herberton, Queensland, and discovered tin near…
The Barron Falls near Kuranda
Barron Gorge
The reservoir of the Barron River behind the hydro-electro dam above the Barron Falls as viewed from a Skyrail gondola heading to Kuranda station.
The mouth of the Barron River is just north of Cairns Airport