Yorkeys Knob
- Local Government Area
- Cairns
- Postcode
- 4878
- Population
- 2,794
- Area
- 11.33 km²
- Coordinates
- -16.8278, 145.7171
- Data
- Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics ASGS boundaries, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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About Yorkeys Knob
Yorkeys Knob is a coastal suburb of Cairns in Far North Queensland, set behind a prominent rounded headland on the Coral Sea. It takes its name from George Lawson, a Yorkshire-born fisherman nicknamed Yorkey who worked the beche-de-mer trade on Green Island in the 1880s, and from the rocky hill, or knob, on the coast. Much of the suburb is low-lying sugarcane country, and its long sandy beach curves around Half Moon Bay, home to a marina and boat club.
Nearby localities
- Holloways Beach 2 km
- Trinity Park 2 km
- Smithfield (Qld) 3 km
- Barron 4 km
- Trinity Beach 4 km
- Machans Beach 4 km