Cardstone, Queensland
locality in Queensland, Australia
Cardstone is a rural locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Cardstone had "no people or a very low population".
Geography
Cardstone is a long thin locality following the valley of the Tully River. Cardstone village was built near the Tully River to accommodate workers and families of the Kareeya Hydro Power Station (17.7671°S 145.5780°E / -17.7671; 145.5780 (Kareeya Hydro Power Station)). The village was less than 1 square kilometre (0.39 sq mi) in area. Cardstone is mostly surrounded by the rainforest of the Tully Gorge National Park which forms part of the World Heritage-listed Wet Tropics of Queensland.
Kareeya is a neighbourhood in the north of the locality near the hydro power station (17.7666°S 145.5833°E / -17.7666; 145.5833 (Kareeya)).
Weary Pocket is another neighbourhood within the south of the locality (17.8666°S 145.75°E / -17.8666; 145.75 (Weary Pocket)).
The land in the most northern part of the locality is mostly bushland, while the southern part of the locality is used for grazing on native vegetation and growing crops, including bananas.
History
Construction of the Kareeya Hydro Power Station on the Tully River commenced in 1952 and the power station commenced operation in 1957.
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