Mount Mackay, Queensland

Mount Mackay is a locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the, Mount Mackay had "no people or a very low population".

Geography
The Mount Mackay National Park fully occupies the locality. It forms part of the Wet Tropics of Queensland, a World Heritage Site.

The mountain Mount Mackay is at the south-west of the locality and stands at 724 m above sea level. In the centre of the locality the elevation falls to 10 m in the valley of Carmoo Creek, and then rises towards the Tam O'Shanter Range at the north-east of the locality, with two peaks on the boundary itself: Mount Tam O'Shanter 381 m and Mount Douglas 339 m. The national park provides a safe habitat for the mahogany glider and the southern cassowary.

History
The locality takes its name from the mountain. In 2005, the Mount Mackay National Park was created from the Mount Mackay State Forest.

Demographics
In the, Mount Mackay had "no people or a very low population".

In the, Mount Mackay had "no people or a very low population".