Elliott Heads, Queensland
town in Queensland, Australia
Elliott Heads is a coastal town and locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the locality of Elliott Heads had a population of 1,160 people.
Geography
The town is located at the mouth of the Elliott River, 359 kilometres (223 mi) north of the state capital, Brisbane.
Elliott Heads is surrounded by small crop and sugarcane farms.
History
The district was officially known as Springfield until it was renamed Elliott Heads on 1 November 1967 by the Queensland Place Names Board. The name refers to the area being at the mouth of the Elliott River where it flows into the Coral Sea. The river in turn takes its name from Gilbert Eliott (1796-1871) (note spelling) public servant, pastoralist and politician, Speaker of Queensland Legislative Assembly 1860–70, Member for Wide Bay 1860–70.
Elliott Heads Post Office opened by January 1952 and closed in 1986.
Airy Park State School (sometimes spelled Airey Park) opened on 16 January 1913. The land for the school was donated by Mr Breusch who had named his first property Airy Park after Peter Airey, a Labor politician.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Elliott Heads, Queensland” as town in Queensland, Australia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as town in Queensland, Australia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5365662. Authority coordinates are -24.917, 152.483. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021, 1967, 1796 and 1871.
A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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