Lucinda, Queensland

The locality is bounded to the east by the Coral Sea, to the north by the southern end of the Hinchinbrook Channel (which separates Hinchinbrook Island from mainland Queensland), to the west by the Herbert River which flows in the Seaforth Channel and then into the Hinchinbrook Channel, and to the south by Gentle Annie Creek which flows into the Coral Sea.

The cape Lucinda Point is the north-eastern corner of the locality ({{coord|-18.5269|146.3393|type:mountain_region:AU-QLD|name=Lucinda Point}}).{{Cite web |date=12 November 2020 |title=Mountain peaks and capes - Queensland |url=https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/geographic-features-queensland-series/resource/06ff12a9-862e-4aac-bf9d-693f0a63b4c9 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125215033/https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/geographic-features-queensland-series/resource/06ff12a9-862e-4aac-bf9d-693f0a63b4c9 |archive-date=25 November 2020 |access-date=25 November 2020 |website=Queensland Open Data |publisher=Queensland Government}}{{cite QPN|20221|Lucinda Point|cape in Hinchinbrook Shire|access-date=25 November 2020}} The town of Lucinda developed along the east coast from the point and extending south.

The Herbert River ({{Coord|-18.5434|146.2898|type:river_region:AU-QLD|name=Herbert River}}) flows into the sea in 3 different ways:

• the main outlet goes north into the Seaford Channel ({{coord|-18.5151|146.2727|type:waterbody_region:AU-QLD|name=Seaforth Channel}} ) and then into the Hinchinbrook Channel ({{coord|-18.5007|146.2957|type:waterbody_region:AU-QLD|name=Hinchinbrook Channel}})
• a second lesser outlet goes east into the Enterprise Channel ({{coord|-18.5295|146.3148|type:waterbody_region:AU-QLD|name=Enterprise Channel}}) through the locality and then into the Coral Sea
• the small Gentle Annie Creek ({{Coord|-18.5567|146.3229|type:river_region:AU-QLD|name=Gentle Annie Creek}}) provides another outflow further south-east into the Coral Sea.{{Cite web |date=12 November 2020 |title=Mountain ranges beaches and sea passages - Queensland |url=https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/geographic-features-queensland-series/resource/1db1dfe1-ab2a-4405-9164-0a54c3b31dda |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125060730/https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/geographic-features-queensland-series/resource/1db1dfe1-ab2a-4405-9164-0a54c3b31dda |archive-date=25 November 2020 |access-date=25 November 2020 |website=Queensland Open Data |publisher=Queensland Government}}

The town of Dungeness ({{coord|-18.5267|146.3186|type:city_region:AU-QLD|name=Dungeness (town)}}) is {{Convert|1.6|km}} by road north-west of the town of Lucinda. Dungeness takes its name from Dungeness Creek, which, in turn, was named after headland Dungeness on the coast of Kent, England.{{cite QPN|10855|Dungeness|town in Shire of Hinchinbrook|access-date=7 March 2022}} Unlike the town of Lucinda, Dungeness faces west onto the Enterprise Channel.

File:StateLibQld 1 235252 View of the Lucinda Point with Hinchinbrook Island in the background.jpg

Lucinda is located on the traditional lands of the Biyaygiri people.[http://www.hinchinbrooknq.com.au/trsm_townships.htm#LUCINDA Hinchinbrook Tourism site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070116123317/http://www.hinchinbrooknq.com.au/trsm_townships.htm#LUCINDA|date=16 January 2007}} - Lucinda page. Retrieved 16 December 2006.

The town was named after Lady Lucinda Musgrave, the wife of the Governor of Queensland, Sir Anthony Musgrave from 1883 to 1888, or the Queensland Government steam yacht, the Lucinda, that was in turn named after her.{{cite QPN|42521|Lucinda|locality in Shire of Hinchinbrook|accessdate=29 May 2019}}

In 1896, the Colonial Sugar Refining Company built a tramway from its Victoria sugar mill to Lucinda Point where the Queensland Government contracted the Rooney Brothers of Townsville built a storage shed and jetty. The existing harbour at Dungeness was not regarded as viable due to its shifting sandbanks.{{cite news |date=31 July 1896 |title=Provincial Pickings |page=6 |newspaper=The Telegraph |issue=7,414 |location=Queensland, Australia |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article174326689 |via=National Library of Australia |accessdate=14 April 2022 |archive-date=14 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220414064130/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/174326689 |url-status=live }} The current jetty was built in 1979.{{Cite web |title=Out & About {{!}} Wanderers Holiday Village Lucinda |url=https://www.wanderers-lucinda.com.au/out-about/ |access-date=2022-04-14 |language=en-US |archive-date=5 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305114947/https://www.wanderers-lucinda.com.au/out-about/ |url-status=live }} On Thursday 3 February 2011, the jetty suffered severe wave damage during Tropical Cyclone Yasi, but was repaired.{{Cite web |title=Lucinda Bulk Sugar Terminal Tropical Cyclone Yasi Recovery, Australia |url=https://www.aurecongroup.com/projects/resources/lucinda-bulk-sugar-terminal-tropical-cyclone-yasi-recovery |access-date=2022-04-14 |website=Aurecon |language=en |archive-date=12 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612173242/https://www.aurecongroup.com/projects/resources/lucinda-bulk-sugar-terminal-tropical-cyclone-yasi-recovery |url-status=live }}

Lucinda Post Office opened on 6 October 1896.{{Cite web|url=https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=QLD&country=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080819033116/https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=qld&country=|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 August 2008|title=Post Office List|last=Premier Postal History|publisher=Premier Postal Auctions|accessdate=10 May 2014}}

Dungeness Provisional School opened in 1896. Due to problems with flooding, the school was moved to Lucinda Point in 1897 and in 1898 renamed as Lucinda Point Provisional School. On 1 January 1909, it became Lucinda Point State School.{{Citation |author1=Queensland Family History Society |title=Queensland schools past and present |publication-date=2010 |edition=Version 1.01 |publisher=Queensland Family History Society |isbn=978-1-921171-26-0}} It was mothballed on 4 November 2008 and closed on 31 December 2008.{{Cite web |date=20 August 2013 |title=Queensland state school - centre closures |url=https://documents.parliament.qld.gov.au/tp/2013/5413T3241.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320144902/https://documents.parliament.qld.gov.au/tp/2013/5413T3241.pdf |archive-date=20 March 2022 |access-date=6 April 2022 |website=Queensland Government}} It was at 20 Patterson Parade (corner Waring Street, {{Coord|-18.5306|146.3339|type:edu_region:AU-QLD|name=Lucinda Point State School (former)}}).{{Cite web |date=1979 |title=Town of Lucinda |url=https://gisservices.information.qld.gov.au/arcgis/rest/directories/historicalscans/cad_scans/cad-map-town-lucinda-1979.jpg |access-date=14 April 2022 |publisher=Queensland Government |type=Map |archive-date=14 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220414033520/https://gisservices.information.qld.gov.au/arcgis/rest/directories/historicalscans/cad_scans/cad-map-town-lucinda-1979.jpg |url-status=live }}{{Queensland Globe|access-date=14 April 2022}} The school's website was archived.{{Cite web |date=2005-07-17 |title=Lucinda Point State School |url=http://lucipoinss.eq.edu.au/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050717082648/http://lucipoinss.eq.edu.au/ |archive-date=2005-07-17 |access-date=2022-04-14 |website=}}

In the {{CensusAU|2006}}, the town of Lucinda had a population of 448 people.{{Census 2006 AUS|id=UCL335000|name=Lucinda (L) (Urban Centre/Locality)|accessdate=2008-07-05|quick=on}}

In the {{CensusAU|2016}}, the locality of Lucinda had a population of 406 people.{{Census 2016 AUS|id=SSC31716|name=Lucinda (SSC)|access-date=20 October 2018|quick=on}}

In the {{CensusAU|2021}}, the locality of Lucinda had a population of 435 people.{{Census 2021 AUS|id=SAL31701|name=Lucinda (SAL)|access-date=28 February 2023|quick=on}}

File:Lucinda jetty 3.jpg

A sugar-exporting town, Lucinda is noted for its {{Convert|5.76|km|adj=on}} long sugar jetty, which is the longest jetty in the southern hemisphere and the world's largest bulk sugar loading facility ({{Coord|-18.5202|146.3863|type:landmark_region:AU-QLD|name=Lucinda Jetty}}). Due to its length, the jetty could not be built flat but follows the curvature of the Earth creating a difference of {{Convert|2|m}} between the two ends of the jetty. The jetty can accommodate Panamax-class ships and it takes 22 minutes for the sugar to travel the length of the jetty by conveyor belt. The sugar is supplied from the Victoria and Macnade sugar mills.{{Cite web |title=Lucinda Jetty |url=https://www.townsvillenorthqueensland.com.au/things-to-do/product-things/?lucinda-jetty-56b2600f7b935fbe730df851 |access-date=2022-04-14 |website=Townsville North Queensland |language=en |archive-date=13 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220313124253/https://www.townsvillenorthqueensland.com.au/things-to-do/product-things/?lucinda-jetty-56b2600f7b935fbe730df851 |url-status=live }}

Lucinda is also used as a port for a supply barge to Palm Island.{{Citation needed|date=April 2022}}

There are no schools in Lucinda. The nearest government primary school is Halifax State School in neighbouring Halifax to the south. The nearest government secondary school is Ingham State High School in Ingham to the south-west.

Lucinda is serviced by a convenience store, the Hinchinbrook Marine Cove Resort{{cite web|url=http://hinchinbrook-marine-cove-resort.com.au/|accessdate=18 December 2017|title=Hinchinbrook Marine Cove Resort|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171231093425/http://hinchinbrook-marine-cove-resort.com.au/|archive-date=31 December 2017|url-status=live}} on the waterfront on Dungeness Road, the Wanderers Village Resort on Bruce Parade and a hotel on Lucinda Point Road. It is also frequently serviced by Ingham and the nearby town of Halifax. Lucinda is serviced 5 days a week by Australia Post.{{Citation needed|date=April 2022}}

Ingham Coast Guard is a marine rescue facility at the junction of Patterson Parade and Warring Street ({{coord|-18.5301|146.3345|type:landmark_region:AU-QLD|name=Ingham Coast Guard}}).{{Cite web |date=18 November 2020 |title=Emergency services facilities - Queensland |url=https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/built-features-queensland-series/resource/923a4139-4a79-4744-8955-d73230796bd6 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124224500/https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/built-features-queensland-series/resource/923a4139-4a79-4744-8955-d73230796bd6 |archive-date=24 November 2020 |access-date=24 November 2020 |website=Queensland Open Data |publisher=Queensland Government}}

There are two boat ramps managed by the Hinchinbrook Shire Council:{{Cite web |date=12 November 2020 |title=Recreational Boating Facilities Queensland |url=https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/recreational-boating-facilities-queensland/resource/60ce6cc3-af0c-4806-bc8c-ab0ee981819c |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201122210008/https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/recreational-boating-facilities-queensland/resource/60ce6cc3-af0c-4806-bc8c-ab0ee981819c |archive-date=22 November 2020 |access-date=22 November 2020 |website=Queensland Open Data |publisher=Queensland Government}}

• on the Dungeness-Lucinda Road providing access to the Herbert River entrance ({{coord|-18.5235|146.3180|type:landmark_region:AU-QLD|name=Dungeness-Lucinda Road boat ramp}})

• on Mona Road providing access to the Herbert River further inland ({{coord|-18.5513|146.2841|type:landmark_region:AU-QLD|name=Mona Road boat ramp}})

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{{Commons category|Lucinda, Queensland}}

• {{cite web |title=Lucinda |url=http://queenslandplaces.com.au/lucinda |website=Queensland Places |publisher=Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland}}
• {{cite web |date=1979 |title=Town map of Lucinda |url=https://gisservices.information.qld.gov.au/arcgis/rest/directories/historicalscans/cad_scans/cad-map-town-lucinda-1979.jpg |publisher=Queensland Government}}
• {{cite web |date=1980 |title=Town map of Dungeness |url=https://gisservices.information.qld.gov.au/arcgis/rest/directories/historicalscans/cad_scans/cad-map-town-dungeness-1980.jpg |publisher=Queensland Government}}
• {{Cite web |last=Balanzategui |first=Bianka Vidonja |date=2016-05-14 |title=A miserable, low-lying dead-and-alive place |url=https://interpretinginghamhistory.blogspot.com/2016/05/a-miserable-low-lying-dead-and-alive.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220414063419/https://interpretinginghamhistory.blogspot.com/2016/05/a-miserable-low-lying-dead-and-alive.html |archive-date=2022-04-14 |access-date=2022-04-14 |website=Interpreting Ingham History}}

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