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Far North Queensland, or FNQ, is the northernmost part of the Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n state
States and territories of Australia

The Australia is made up of six states and two major mainland territories. There are also lesser territories that are under the administration of the federal government....
 of Queensland
Queensland

Queensland is a States and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south....
. The region, which contains a large section of the Tropical North Queensland area, stretches from the city of Cairns
Cairns, Queensland

Cairns is a regional city in Far North Queensland, Australia. The area upon which the city has been built is known in the local Yidiny language as Gimuy....
 north to the Torres Strait
Torres Strait

The Torres Strait is a body of water which lies between Australia and the Melanesian island of New Guinea. It is approximately 150 kilometre wide at its narrowest extent....
.

Various Government Departments and agencies have different definitions for the region.






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Far North Queensland, or FNQ, is the northernmost part of the Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n state
States and territories of Australia

The Australia is made up of six states and two major mainland territories. There are also lesser territories that are under the administration of the federal government....
 of Queensland
Queensland

Queensland is a States and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south....
. The region, which contains a large section of the Tropical North Queensland area, stretches from the city of Cairns
Cairns, Queensland

Cairns is a regional city in Far North Queensland, Australia. The area upon which the city has been built is known in the local Yidiny language as Gimuy....
 north to the Torres Strait
Torres Strait

The Torres Strait is a body of water which lies between Australia and the Melanesian island of New Guinea. It is approximately 150 kilometre wide at its narrowest extent....
.

Various Government Departments and agencies have different definitions for the region. The Queensland Government Planning Department's document defines the region an area comprising of ten local government areas: (Atherton
Atherton, Queensland

Atherton is a town on the Atherton Tablelands of Far North Queensland Queensland, Australia.Average temperatures*Summer 17–35 ?C...
, Cairns
Cairns, Queensland

Cairns is a regional city in Far North Queensland, Australia. The area upon which the city has been built is known in the local Yidiny language as Gimuy....
, Cardwell
Cardwell, Queensland

Cardwell is tropical coastal town in northeastern Queensland. It is located at the southern extremity of the Cassowary Coast Regional Council. At the 2006 Census in Australia, Cardwell had a population of 1,250....
, Douglas
Port Douglas, Queensland

Port Douglas is a town in Far North Queensland Queensland, Australia, approximately north of Cairns, Queensland. Its permanent population was 948 residents in 2006....
, Eacham
Local Government Areas of Queensland

The Local Government Areas in Australia of Queensland, Australia are the areas for which particular Local Government authorities, generally known as "Councils" have the responsibility to provide local government services....
, Herberton
Herberton, Queensland

Herberton is a town on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland, Australia, located at , 882 m above sea level. It has a population of approximately 1,500....
, Johnstone
Local Government Areas of Queensland

The Local Government Areas in Australia of Queensland, Australia are the areas for which particular Local Government authorities, generally known as "Councils" have the responsibility to provide local government services....
, and Mareeba
Mareeba, Queensland

Mareeba is a town on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland Queensland, Australia. It is located at , 417 metres above sea level on the confluence of the Barron River, Granite Creek and Emerald Creek....
) and two Aboriginal Councils (Wujal Wujal
Wujal Wujal

Wujal Wujal is in northern Queensland, Australia. Wujal Wujal is the name of a relatively small Indigenous Australians community on the north and south sides of the Bloomfield River, Queensland....
 and Yarrabah). The Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australian Bureau of Statistics

File:ABS House.jpgThe Australian Bureau of Statistics is Australia's national statistics government agency. It came into being, as the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, on 8 December 1905, when the Census and Statistics Act 1905 was given Royal assent....
 defines the region as region containing most of Cape York Peninsula
Cape York Peninsula

Cape York Peninsula is a large peninsula located in Far North Queensland Queensland, Australia. This remote peninsula is one of the last remaining wilderness areas on Earth....
 (excluding the south western quarter, half way up the Gulf of Carpentaria
Gulf of Carpentaria

File:Gulf of Carpentaria map.pngFile:Gulf-of-Carpentaria-Australia-Otto-Petri-1859-Rotterdam.jpgThe Gulf of Carpentaria is a large, shallow sea enclosed on three sides by northern Australia and bounded on the north by the Arafura Sea ....
 coast) and the Torres Strait Islands
Torres Strait Islands

The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands which lie in Torres Strait, the waterway separating far northern continental Australia's Cape York Peninsula and the island of New Guinea....
 and extending as far south as Hinchinbrook Island
Hinchinbrook Island

Hinchinbrook Island is an island in tropical north Queensland, between the mainland and the Great Barrier Reef, and between the region's major cities Townsville, Queensland and Cairns ....
 and the town of Cardwell
Cardwell, Queensland

Cardwell is tropical coastal town in northeastern Queensland. It is located at the southern extremity of the Cassowary Coast Regional Council. At the 2006 Census in Australia, Cardwell had a population of 1,250....
 but does not include the city of Townsville
Townsville, Queensland

Townsville is a city on the north-eastern coast of Australia, in the state of Queensland. Adjacent to the central section of the Great Barrier Reef, it is in the dry tropics region of Queensland....
. This larger definition is also used by other State Government agencies and also encompasses the local government areas of Cook Shire, Croydon Shire, Ethridge Shire, the Aboriginal
Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the first human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands and their descendants. Indigenous Australians are distinguished as either Australian Aborigines or Torres Strait Islanders, who currently together make up about 2.6% of Australia's population....
 communities of Aurukun
Aurukun, Queensland

Aurukun is an Indigenous Australian community, situated approximately 100 km south of Weipa, Queensland in far North Queensland, Australia. The town faces west to the Gulf of Carpentaria, and during the wet season, roads are impassable....
 and Lockhart River
Lockhart River, Queensland

Lockhart River is an Aboriginal community on Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, Australia. The population consists mostly of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, whose descendants were forcibly moved to the area beginning in 1924....
, and local government authorities in the Torres Strait
Torres Strait Islands

The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands which lie in Torres Strait, the waterway separating far northern continental Australia's Cape York Peninsula and the island of New Guinea....
 region. It has a total area of 272,655.2 kmē

The main population and administrative centre of the region is located in Cairns. Other key population centres include Cooktown
Cooktown, Queensland

Cooktown is the northernmost town on the east coast of Australia, located at the mouth of the Endeavour River, on Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland....
, the Atherton Tableland
Atherton Tableland

The Atherton Tableland is a fertile plateau which is part of the Great Dividing Range in Queensland, Australia. It is located west to south-south-west inland from Cairns, Queensland, well into the tropics, but its elevated position provides a climate suitable for dairy farming....
, Weipa
Weipa, Queensland

Weipa is the largest town on the Gulf of Carpentaria coast of the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, Australia. It is sometimes considered to be the 'Capital of Cape York' and is a mining town of over 3,000 people that exists because of the enormous bauxite deposits along the coast....
 and the Torres Strait Islands
Torres Strait Islands

The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands which lie in Torres Strait, the waterway separating far northern continental Australia's Cape York Peninsula and the island of New Guinea....
. The region also consists of many Aboriginal
Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the first human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands and their descendants. Indigenous Australians are distinguished as either Australian Aborigines or Torres Strait Islanders, who currently together make up about 2.6% of Australia's population....
 and farming communities.

Significant industries include tourism, cattle grazing, agriculture (sugar cane and tropical fruits) and mining of both sand and bauxite
Bauxite

Bauxite is the most important aluminium ore. It consists largely of the minerals gibbsite Al3, boehmite ?-AlO, and diaspore a-AlO, together with the iron oxides goethite and hematite, the clay mineral kaolinite and small amounts of anatase TiO2....
.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics estimates the region's population at 30 June 2003 to have been 231,494 of which 117,531 lived in Cairns. The region contains 25.6% of the state's Indigenous
Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the first human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands and their descendants. Indigenous Australians are distinguished as either Australian Aborigines or Torres Strait Islanders, who currently together make up about 2.6% of Australia's population....
 population, or 28,909 people, making up 11.8% of the region's population.

Far North Queensland based federal Member of Parliament Bob Katter
Bob Katter

Robert Carl "Bob" Katter is an Australian federal politician. He has served as a member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1993, representing the Division of Kennedy, Queensland....
 has suggested that Far North Queensland secede from Queensland
Queensland

Queensland is a States and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south....
 to guarantee better parliamentary representation .

See also

  • Regions of Queensland
    Regions of Queensland

    The Regions of Queensland refers to the geographic areas of the Australian state of Queensland. Due to its large size and decentralised population, the state is often divided into regions for statistical and administrative purposes....
  • North Queensland Party
    North Queensland Party

    The North Queensland Party is a political party based in Cairns, Queensland, Australia, trying to create a new Australian state out of the northern part of Queensland....
  • Proposal for a new state of North Queensland
    Proposals for new Australian States

    A number of proposals for further states of Australia have been made in the past century. So far, no new State have been added to the Commonwealth since Federation of Australia in 1901....