New Mapoon
- Local Government Area
- Northern Peninsula Area
- Postcode
- 4876
- Population
- 412
- Area
- 98.85 km²
- Coordinates
- -10.7875, 142.4387
- Data
- Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics ASGS boundaries, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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About New Mapoon
New Mapoon is a town in the Northern Peninsula Area Region and coastal locality split between the Northern Peninsula Region and Shire of Torres, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the locality of New Mapoon had a population of 412 people. The people who live at New Mapoon were forcibly moved from Marpuna in the early 1960s to accommodate mining expansion on their traditional country.
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