11-636: Murray Upper is a rural locality in the Cassowary Coast Region , Queensland , Australia. In the 2021 census , Murray Upper had a population of 218 people. The Murray River rises in Murray Upper and enters the Coral Sea at neighbouring Bilyana . Almost all of the locality is mountainous (rising to peaks of about 900 metres about sea level) and is within the Girramay National Park . Only
22-644: A cascade waterfall on the Murray River within the Girramay National Park and form part of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area . The falls can be viewed from a boardwalk and viewing platform. [REDACTED] Media related to Murray Upper, Queensland at Wikimedia Commons This Queensland location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Suburbs and localities (Australia) Suburbs and localities are
33-580: A larger city. The Australian usage is closer to the American or British use of "district" or "neighbourhood", and can be used to refer to any portion of a city. Unlike the use in British or American English, this term can include inner-city, outer-metropolitan and industrial areas. Localities existed in the past as informal units, but in 1996 the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping and
44-605: A small area in the north-east of the locality is outside the national park and is flat land about 20 metres about sea level and this land is used for farming with sugarcane and bananas being important crops. A cane tramway passes through the farming area to carry the sugarcane to the sugar mill at Tully . Jumbun Aboriginal community is located on Murray Falls Road in Murray Upper at 18°07′39″S 145°47′53″E / 18.1274°S 145.7981°E / -18.1274; 145.7981 ( Jumbun, Queensland ) . Girramay (also known as Giramay, Garamay, Giramai, Keramai)
55-559: Is a language of Far North Queensland, particularly the area around Herbert River Catchment taking in the towns of Bilyana , Cardwell and Ingham . The Girramay language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of Cassowary Coast and Hinchinbrook Regional Councils. Murray River Upper Provisional School opened on 18 January 1904. It became Murray River Upper State School on 1 October 1904. It closed temporarily due to low student numbers in 1910, 1922, July 1924 to July 1925, and 16 May 1927 to 4 November 1934. In
66-610: Is split between the City of Newcastle and City of Lake Macquarie LGAs; and Woodville , which is split between the City of Maitland and Port Stephens Council LGAs. In unincorporated areas , localities are declared by the relevant state authority. Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia The Permanent Committee on Place Names ( PCPN ) created from the various Australian and New Zealand committees on geographical names . The PCPN started in 1984 as
77-406: The 2016 census , Murray Upper had a population of 266 people. In the 2021 census , Murray Upper had a population of 218 people. Murray River Upper State School is a government co-education primary (P-6) school at 1 Middle Murray Road. In 2016, the school had an enrolment of 45 students with 4 teachers (3 full-time equivalent) and 7 non-teaching staff (3 full-time equivalent). Murray Falls are
88-987: The Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia (CGNA) decided to name and establish official boundaries for all localities and suburbs. There has subsequently been a process to formally define their boundaries and to gazette them, which is almost complete. In March 2006, only South Australia and the Northern Territory had not completed this process. The CGNA's Gazetteer of Australia recognises two types of locality: bounded and unbounded. Bounded localities include towns, villages, populated places, local government towns and unpopulated town sites, while unbounded localities include place names, road corners and bends, corners, meteorological stations, ocean place names and surfing spots. Sometimes, both localities and suburbs are referred to collectively as "address localities". In
99-632: The Committee for Geographical Names in Australia ( CGNA ) and it was renamed in 2005. It was integrated within the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping (ICSM) in 1993. It is also associated with the Geospatial and Earth Monitoring Division of Geoscience Australia . It contributes to the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names . Annual meetings followed at:- The authorities that work on geographic names and are members of
110-438: The first instance, decisions about the names and boundaries of suburbs and localities are made by the local council in which they are located based on criteria such as community recognition. Local council decisions are, however, subject to approval by the state's geographical names board. The boundaries of some suburbs and localities overlap two or more local government areas (LGAs). Examples of this are Adamstown Heights , which
121-509: The names of geographic subdivisions in Australia , used mainly for address purposes. The term locality is used in rural areas, while the term suburb is used in urban areas. Australian postcodes closely align with the boundaries of localities and suburbs. This Australian usage of the term "suburb" differs from common American and British usage, where it typically means a smaller, frequently separate residential community outside, but close to,
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