Somerset, Queensland
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Somerset is a coastal locality split between the Shire of Torres and the Northern Peninsula Area Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Somerset had a population of 0 people.
The old cannons at Somerset
Frank Jardine's home, the former Government Resident's House at Somerset, Cape York Peninsula
Kennedy Memorial Monument, circa 1969
Francis Lascelles Jardine
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Francis Lascelles (Frank) Jardine was a Scottish-Australian pioneer who was at the forefront of British colonisation and Aboriginal dispossession in the Cape York Peninsula and Torres Strait regions of Far North Queensland.
The Jardine family residence at Somerset, Cape York, 1917
Francis Lascelles Jardine, 1917