North Queensland
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North Queensland or the Northern Region is the northern part of the Australian state of Queensland that lies just south of Far North Queensland. Queensland is a massive state, larger than many countries, and its tropical northern part has been historically remote and undeveloped, resulting in a distinctive regional character and identity.
Suburbs of Townsville around Castle Hill
There a number of sugar mills in the region, including one at Proserpine
Proserpine, a town in North Queensland and gateway to the Whitsunday Region. A potential site for government buildings for a future NQ state.
Flooding disrupts the Great Northern Railway in the 1930s
Far North Queensland
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Far North Queensland (FNQ) is the northernmost part of the Australian state of Queensland. Its largest city is Cairns and it is dominated geographically by Cape York Peninsula, which stretches north to the Torres Strait, and west to the Gulf Country. The waters of Torres Strait include the only international border in the area contiguous with the Australian mainland, between Australia and Papua New Guinea.
View from Daintree National Park, 2009
Crops near Cardwell, Far North Queensland
Bloomfield Track in the Daintree Rainforest