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Mount Jukes is a mountain and surrounding coastal rural locality north of Mackay in the Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Mount Jukes had a population of 373 people.




Geography


The locality is bounded to the east by the Coral Sea, to the south-east by Constant Creek which flows into the Coral Sea, and to the south-west by Nielson Creek, a tributary of Constant Creek.
There are three sections of the Pioneer Peaks National Park in the west, south-west and south of the locality.
The mountain Mount Jukes is located in the south-west of the locality (20.9978°S 148.9492°E / -20.9978; 148.9492 (Mount Jukes (Queensland))) within the south-western section of the national park and the Central Mackay Coast IBRA Region. It rises to 547 metres (1,795 ft) above sea level and is composed of igneous rock that has been weathered and eroded.
Mount Adder is another mountain within the western section of the national park (20.9834°S 148.9188°E / -20.9834; 148.9188 (Mount Adder)) rising to 380 metres (1,250 ft). The mountains originated from volcanic activity approximately 32 million years ago.
Apart from the national parks, the land use is a mixture of crop growing (mostly sugarcane), grazing on native vegetation and rural residential housing.
Offshore is Sand Bay (20.950°S 149.054°E / -20.950; 149.054 (Sand Bay)).
Yakapari-Seaforth Road enters the locality from the south (Kuttabul) and exits to the north-west (Seaforth). There is a network of cane tramways in the locality to transport the harvested sugarcane to the local sugar mills operated by Mackay Sugar.
Mount Jukes has a species of shrubs growing in its trees called the Mount Blackwood holly (Graptophyllum ilicifolium), a species only found in Mount Blackwood area.




History


Mount Jukes was named by George Elphinstone Dalrymple in 1862 after geologist Joseph Beete Jukes, who served as a naturalist on the explorations of HMS Fly from 1842 to 1846.
In 1896, Harold Forster Blaxland had purchased land on Mount Jukes to open a coffee plantation. Eight acres of coffee plants were planted in 1897 and a further seven was planted in the following years. Due to financial struggles the coffee plantation closed in 1919.




Demographics


In the 2016 census, Mount Jukes had a population of 394 people.
In the 2021 census, Mount Jukes had a population of 373 people.




Education


There are no schools in Mount Jukes. The nearest government primary schools are Seaforth State School in neighbouring Seaforth to the north-west and Hampden State School in neighbouring Hampden to the south. The nearest government secondary schools is Mackay North State High School in North Mackay to the south-east.




Amenities


There is a boat ramp in Howell's Road into Constant Creek (21.0097°S 148.9974°E / -21.0097; 148.9974 (Howell's Road boat ramp)). It is managed by the Mackay Regional Council.




See also



List of mountains in Australia




References






External links


Mt Jukes Coffee Plantation photographs 1890-1936, State Library of Queensland

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