Aurukun
- Local Government Area
- Aurukun
- Population
- 1,101
- Area
- 7,423.99 km²
- Coordinates
- -13.6094, 141.8285
- Data
- Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics ASGS boundaries, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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About Aurukun
Aurukun /ærəˈkuːn/ is a town and coastal locality in the Shire of Aurukun and the Shire of Cook in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is an Indigenous community. In the 2021 census, the locality of Aurukun had a population of 1,101 people, of whom 997 (88.7%) identified as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people.
Description from Wikipedia, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nearby localities
- Archer River 81 km
- Holroyd River 97 km