Kimberley, Queensland

Kimberley is a coastal locality in the Shire of Douglas, Queensland, Australia. In the, Kimberley had a population of 28 people.

Geography
The locality is bounded to the south by the Daintree River and to the south-east, east, and north-east by the Coral Sea.

Cape Tribulation Road enters the locality from the west (Forest Creek) and meanders through the centre of the locality and then exits to the north-west (Cow Bay).

Much of the locality is within the Daintree National Park. Other land uses includes grazing on native vegetation and horticulture.

The locality has a number of coastal and off-shore features (from north to south):


 * Cow Bay, a side bay of Tinity Bay, named after the dugongs (also known as sea cows) which inhabit the bay (-16.236°N, 145.4731°W)
 * Cape Kimberley, named after the first Earl of Kimberley who was Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1870 to 1874 and from 1880 1882 (-16.2773°N, 145.4876°W)
 * Penguin Channel, probably named after HMS Penguin (1876) which did Great Barrier Reef hydrographic surveys in the late 1800s (-16.2843°N, 145.4876°W)
 * Halls Point (also known as Hells Point) (-16.2895°N, 145.4586°W)
 * Snapper Island, a 59 ha marine island (-16.2974°N, 145.4988°W)

History
The locality takes its name from Cape Kimberley, which in turn was named on 24 October 1873 after John Wodehouse, First Earl of Kimberley (Secretary of State for the Colonies) by explorer George Elphinstone Dalrymple.

The town of Kimberley was surveyed in December 1886 and later renamed the town of Whitby, after the town in England from which James Cook set sail in HMS Endeavour. The town was abandoned in the late 1800s. It was located on the northern bank of the Daintree River (-16.27306°N, 145.44417°W).

Demographics
In the, Kimberley had a population of 33 people.

In the, Kimberley had a population of 28 people.

Attractions
Walu Wugirriga Lookout (also known as Mount Alexandra Lookout) is on Cape Tribulation Road (-16.2458°N, 145.4362°W). It provides views across the mouth of the Daintree River and beyond to Snapper Island and the Low Isles.