Ringtail Creek, Queensland
locality in Queensland, Australia
Ringtail Creek is a rural locality in the Shire of Noosa, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Ringtail Creek had a population of 203 people.
Geography
The locality is in the northern Sunshine Coast hinterland.
The north-eastern boundary follows the Noosa River where it leaves Lake Cootharaba. A small section in the west belongs to the Mary River catchment area. A large portion of the locality is protected within the Ringtail Forest Reserve.
The town of Cooloothin is at 26.3132°S 152.9735°E / -26.3132; 152.9735 (Cooloothin).
Sealys Lagoon is a lagoon on Ringfield Creek (the watercourse) on the eastern border of the locality (26.3355°S 152.9919°E / -26.3355; 152.9919 (Sealys Lagoon)).
History
By 1875, a sugarcane plantation had been established at Cooloothin Creek by 1875.
In July 1880, the Queensland Government sold off 61 town allotments in Cooloothin.
“Ringtail Creek, Queensland” enters the record as locality in Queensland, Australia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ringtail, Creek and Queensland can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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