Mapoon
- Local Government Area
- Cook
- Population
- 469
- Area
- 6,508.73 km²
- Coordinates
- -11.8678, 142.1843
- Data
- Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics ASGS boundaries, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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About Mapoon
Mapoon is a coastal town on the western shore of Port Musgrave on Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland, on the traditional homelands of the Tjungundji people. Established as the Batavia River Mission in 1891, it was the first of four Presbyterian missions in the region; the name comes from a Tjungundji word meaning "place where people fight on the sand-hills". The community was forcibly dispersed in the early 1960s, and since the 1970s people have gradually re-established the town.
Nearby localities
- Shelburne 72 km
- Jardine River 84 km
- Wenlock 85 km
- Rocky Point (Weipa - Qld) 90 km
- Injinoo 90 km
- Trunding 91 km