(Former) Cairns Post Building

(Former) Cairns Post Building is a building in Cairns, Far North Queensland, Queensland. (Former) Cairns Post Building is situated nearby to the art gallery The Court House, as well as near Ancient Journeys.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Cairns Hospital and Cairns Control Room.

Cairns Hospital

Hospital

Photo: Mondberg, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Cairns Hospital, known as the Cairns Base Hospital between 1932 and 2013, is the largest major hospital in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is located at 165 The Esplanade, Cairns North, Cairns. Cairns Hospital is situated 1½ km northwest of (Former) Cairns Post Building.

Cairns Control Room

Building

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.

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 760 metres northwest of (Former) Cairns Post Building.

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. HMAS Cairns is situated 1½ km south of (Former) Cairns Post Building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cairns City and Parramatta Park.

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.

Parramatta Park

Suburb

Parramatta Park is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Parramatta Park had a population of 3,621 people.

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.

(Former) Cairns Post Building

Type: Building
Location: Cairns, Far North Queensland, Queensland, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-16.92212° or 16° 55′ 20″ south

Longitude

145.77807° or 145° 46′ 41″ east

Open location code

5RM73QHH+56

OpenStreetMap ID

way 305916529

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

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