Firewood Creek

Firewood Creek is a stream in Queensland, Australia. Firewood Creek is situated nearby to the suburb Portsmith, as well as near the locality Glen Boughton.

Places of Interest

Highlights include HMAS Cairns and Cairns Control Room.

HMAS Cairns

Military installation

Photo: Fosnez, Public domain.

HMAS Cairns is a Royal Australian Navy base located adjacent to the Trinity Inlet on the shore of Trinity Bay in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Although used regularly as a port-of-call since before World War II, a permanent RAN presence was not established until 1971, when a maintenance and support base for patrol boats was set up.

Cairns Control Room

Building

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Cairns Control Room is a heritage-listed military building at Grafton Street, Cairns City, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1942 by the Queensland Department of Public Works. Cairns Control Room is situated 4 km northwest of Firewood Creek.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Portsmith and Cairns City.

Portsmith

Suburb

Portsmith is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Portsmith had a population of 314 people.

Cairns City

Suburb

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Cairns City, also called Cairns CBD, is a coastal suburb comprising the central business district of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Cairns City had a population of 3,616 people. Cairns City is situated 3½ km northwest of Firewood Creek.

Cairns

Photo: Jc8136, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Cairns is touted as the "gateway to the Great Barrier Reef" and other destinations such as Kuranda and the Daintree Rainforest in Far North Queensland.

Firewood Creek

Type: Stream
Category: body of water
Location: Queensland, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-16.95° or 16° 57′ south

Longitude

145.78889° or 145° 47′ 20″ east

Elevation

9 metres (30 feet)

Open location code

5RM72QXQ+XH

GeoNames ID

2207375

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