Stokes, Queensland

Stokes
Stokes; Queensland
	Alexandra River, at Stokes, 2013
	Stokes
Coordinates	18°40′27″S140°30′07″E / 18.6741°S 140.5019°E Coordinates: 18°40′27″S140°30′07″E / 18.6741°S 140.5019°E
Population	84 (2016 census) [1]
• Density
Postcode(s)	4823
Area	12,432.5 km2 (4,800.2 sq mi)
LGA(s)	Shire of Carpentaria
State electorate(s)	Traeger
Federal Division(s)	Kennedy
	Suburbs around Stokes:

Last updated November 12, 2019

Stokes is a locality in the Shire of Carpentaria, Queensland, Australia.^[2] In the 2016 census, Stokes had a population of 84 people.^[1]

Suburbs and localities are the names of geographic subdivisions in Australia, used mainly for address purposes. The term locality is used in rural areas, while the term suburb is used in urban areas. Australian postcodes closely align with the boundaries of localities and suburbs.

The Shire of Carpentaria is a local government area in Far North Queensland, Australia on the Gulf of Carpentaria, for which it is named.

Queensland is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia. Situated in the north-east of the country, it is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean. To its north is the Torres Strait, with Papua New Guinea located less than 200 km across it from the mainland. The state is the world's sixth-largest sub-national entity, with an area of 1,852,642 square kilometres (715,309 sq mi).

Geography

The Leichhardt River forms the western boundary of the locality. Together with the Alexandra River, the Cloncurry River, the Flinders River and the Saxby River and numerous creeks, they all flow from south to north through the locality. The Alexandra River becomes a tributary of the Leichhardt River at the north-western point of the locality and the Cloncurry River and Saxby Rivers both become tributaries of the Flinders River in the north-east of the locality, leaving only the Leichhardt and Flinders Rivers to continue to flow into the Gulf of Carpentaria to the north.^[3]

The Leichhardt River is a river in north west Queensland, Australia.

The Cloncurry River is situated in the Gulf Country of north west Queensland, Australia.

The Flinders River is the longest river in Queensland, Australia, at approximately 1,004 kilometres (624 mi). It was named in honour of the explorer Matthew Flinders. The catchment is sparsely populated and mostly undeveloped. The Flinders rises on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range in North West Queensland and flows generally north-west through the Gulf Country, across a large, flat clay pan, before entering the Gulf of Carpentaria.

The Burke Developmental Road passes through the locality from north-east to south. The Wills Developmental Road passes through the south-west of the locality. The roads intersect at the neighbouring locality of Four Ways to the south. The land is entirely used for pastoral leases and is mostly flat at approximately 50 metres above sea level.^[3]

The Burke Developmental Road is a Queensland (Australia) developmental road. It links Cloncurry and Normanton in a south–north direction, then continues to the east 30 km north from Normanton, till Dimbulah, where it becomes the Mareeba Dimbulah Road.

The Wills Developmental Road is a road in north-west Queensland running between Julia Creek and Burketown. As of 2016 it is sealed with a total length of 500 kilometres (310 mi). There are no major towns along the entire route, but fuel and supplies are available at the Burke and Wills Roadhouse and Gregory, Queensland. The Wills Developmental Road joins the Burke Developmental Road for approximately 1.2 kilometres to avoid a direct crossroads at their intersection. Two major rivers are crossed by the Wills Developmental Road en route, the Cloncurry and the Leichhardt.

Four Ways is a locality in the Shire of Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia.

The flatness of the land gives emphasis to a hill locally known as Bang Bang Jump Up on the Burke Developmental Road as it is the only sudden change in elevation within a very long distance and is of interest to tourists both as a lookout over the surrounding countryside and because they find the name amusing.^[4]^[5]

Bang Bang Jump Up is a solitary rocky hill in Stokes, Shire of Carpentaria, Queensland, Australia.

History

The locality is named after John Lort Stokes , who was commanding officer of HMS Beagle from 1841 to 1846.^[2]

Admiral John Lort Stokes, RN was an officer in the Royal Navy who travelled on HMS Beagle for close to eighteen years.

HMS Beagle was a Cherokee-class 10-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, one of more than 100 ships of this class. The vessel, constructed at a cost of £7,803, was launched on 11 May 1820 from the Woolwich Dockyard on the River Thames. Later reports say the ship took part in celebrations of the coronation of King George IV of the United Kingdom, passing through the old London Bridge, and was the first rigged man-of-war afloat upriver of the bridge. There was no immediate need for Beagle so she "lay in ordinary", moored afloat but without masts or rigging. She was then adapted as a survey barque and took part in three survey expeditions.

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References

1 2 Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Stokes (SSC)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
1 2 "Stokes - locality in Shire of Carpentaria (entry 42918)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government . Retrieved 31 December 2017.
1 2 "Queensland Globe". State of Queensland . Retrieved 20 March 2018.
↑ "Normanton > Attractions". Explore Australia Publishing. Archived from the original on 11 July 2017. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
↑ "Travelogue of NW Queensland and the Northern Territory". Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 4 March 2010.

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[Census2016-1] 1 2 Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Stokes (SSC)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 21 March 2018.

[qpnl-2] 1 2 "Stokes - locality in Shire of Carpentaria (entry 42918)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government . Retrieved 31 December 2017.

[:0-3] 1 2 "Queensland Globe". State of Queensland . Retrieved 20 March 2018.

[4] "Normanton > Attractions". Explore Australia Publishing. Archived from the original on 11 July 2017. Retrieved 13 June 2017.

[ref1-5] "Travelogue of NW Queensland and the Northern Territory". Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 4 March 2010.

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