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Mareeba

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Mareeba is a town in Far North Queensland, Australia. The town is 417 metres above sea stage on the confluence of the Barron River, Granite Creek and Emerald Creek. It is inside the nearby government location of Shire of Mareeba. The city's name is derived from an Aboriginal word meaning meeting of the waters. In the 2011 census, Mareeba had a populace of 10,181 human beings. Prior to European settlement, the area round Mareeba changed into inhabited through the Muluridji people.

They maintained a hunter/gatherer existence inside the area between Mount Carbine, Mareeba, Rumula and Woodville, in particular focused among Biboohra and Mount Molloy. In the neighborhood Aboriginal language, Mareeba method assembly of the waters - referring to the point at which the Barron River is joined with the aid of Granite Creek. On 26 May 1875 James Venture Mulligan became the first European officially to look the future website of Mareeba when he rode up the jap financial institution of the Barron River, and passed the junctions of Emerald Creek and Granite Creek.

The Mareeba place became first settled by Europeans in 1877 by using John Atherton, who arrived with farm animals at Emerald End, that's just north of the metropolis nowadays. Mareeba quickly have become a busy coach forestall for Cobb & Co on the road from Port Douglas to Herberton. When the railway arrived in 1893, Mareeba grew into a hectic town. Mareeba Post Office opened on 25 August 1893. A Mareeba Diggings Post Office opened with the aid of 1893 and closed in 1905.

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