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[[Cairns Regional Council]] operates a library service in Manunda, located in the Raintrees shopping Centre. |
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Revision as of 05:24, 2 February 2018
Manunda Cairns, Queensland | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 16°55′09″S 145°44′54″E / 16.9191°S 145.7483°E | ||||||||||||||
Population | 5,191 (SAL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 4870 | ||||||||||||||
Area | 4.5 km2 (1.7 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
LGA(s) | Cairns Region | ||||||||||||||
State electorate(s) | Cairns | ||||||||||||||
Federal division(s) | Leichhardt | ||||||||||||||
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Manunda is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.[2]
Geography
Manunda is a flat suburb (0-10 metres above sea level). The southern part of Manunda is residential while the northern part contains a number of community amenities including sportsgrounds and the Cairns Cemetery (also known as Martyn Street Cemetery). In-between is an industrial estate.[3]
History
Manunda was named by Queensland Place Names Board on 1 September 1973 after TSMV Manunda of the Adelaide Steamship Company which regularly visited Cairns.[2]
Manunda is home to many schools.The Cairns Seventh Day Adventist School opened on 6 February 1950. Trinity Bay State High School opened on 25 January 1960. Cairns West State School opened on 28 January 1964. St Francis Xavier's School opened on 23 January 1967.[4]
Manunda Library opened in 1991 and underwent a major refurbishment in 2007.[5]
Cairns School of Distance Education opened 20 July 1974. Emmanuel College opened in Manunda on 29 January 1986. On 4 February 1991 Trinity Bay Centre for Continuing Secondary Education was established, conducting night classes at Trinity Bay State High School.[4]
In 2002 Emmanual College closed and became Djarragun College, a school committed to improving the educational outcomes of Indigenous students in the Cape York area.[6][7]
Amenities
Cairns Regional Council operates a public library in Manunda at the Raintrees shopping centre.[8]
Notable people buried in Martyn Street Cemetery
- Bunny Adair, Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Cook
- Leonard John Brass, botanist and explorer
- Ray Jones, Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Cairns
- Andrew Leon (also known as Andrew Lee On and Leong Chong), established the first sugar plantation and sugar mill in North Queensland
- John Mann, Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Cairns
- Thomas Nevitt, Member of the Queensland Legislative Council and the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Carpentaria
- Percy Pease, Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Herbert
- Watty Wallace, Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Cairns
Facilities
Cairns Regional Council operates a library service in Manunda, located in the Raintrees shopping Centre[9].
References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Manunda (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ a b "Manunda – suburb in Cairns Region (entry 48742)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
- ^ "Queensland Globe". State of Queensland. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
- ^ a b Queensland Family History Society (2010), Queensland schools past and present (Version 1.01 ed.), Queensland Family History Society, ISBN 978-1-921171-26-0
- ^ "Public Libraries Statistical Bulletin 2016-17" (PDF). Public Libraries Connect. State Library of Queensland. November 2017. p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 January 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
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External links
Media related to Manunda, Queensland at Wikimedia Commons
- "Manunda". Queensland Places. Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland.