CACrown ArchivesThe cinema collection
Menu
Research dossier · General Reference

Moore Park Beach, Queensland

locality in Queensland, Australia

Cross-disciplinary reference desk with index cards, atlas, dictionary and catalogue
General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ6908199 ↗
Source-derived summary

Moore Park Beach is a coastal rural locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia. The coastal town of Moore Park is within the locality. In the 2021 census, the locality of Moore Park Beach had a population of 2,890 people.

Geography

Moore Park Beach is on the Coral Sea, 23.4 kilometres (14.5 mi) by road north of the city of Bundaberg. It is bordered to the north and north-west by the Kolan River, to the south by the suburbs of Moorland and Welcome Creek, and on the east by Fairymead.

Fairydale is a neighbourhood within the south-east of the locality (24.7486°S 152.3010°E / -24.7486; 152.3010 (Fairydale (neighbourhood))).

Moore Park Beach is a sandy beach (24.6969°S 152.2517°E / -24.6969; 152.2517 (Moore Park Beach)) which extends the entire length of the locality's coastline and beyond to Fairymead.

The most northern part of the locality is protected within the Mouth of Kolan River Conservation Park (24.6778°S 152.2199°E / -24.6778; 152.2199 (Mouth of Kolan River Conservation Park)). It is 784 hectares (1,940 acres).

The residential land is in two areas, the coastal strip with predominantly suburban-sized house lots and an area in the west of the locality accessed via Malvern Drive featuring larger rural residential land parcels.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Moore Park Beach, Queensland” is locality in Queensland, Australia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Moore, Park and Beach, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Moore, Park and Beach is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “locality in Queensland, Australia” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6908199. The first chronological checks are 2021.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. 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.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

Best used for
  • Subject orientation
  • Search vocabulary
  • Locating named sources
Verify next

The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Moore Park Beach, Queensland”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Moore Park Beach, Queensland primary sources, Moore Park Beach, Queensland archive and Moore research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Moore Park Beach, Queensland”?
  2. What terminology or title could unlock a more precise catalogue search?
  3. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
Subject index

Search terms from this dossier

Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Moore Park Beach, Queensland” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.