Download coordinates as: Burnett Heads is a coastal town and locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia.

[4][5] The land use is a mixture of residential (mostly with proximity to the coast), industrial (mostly the Port of Bundaberg) and some agricultural use (growing sugarcane).

There is a network of cane tramways to transport the harvested sugarcane to the Millaquin sugar mill for processing.

The same map shows the Lighthouse, Pilot Station and Public Telegraph Office at South Head.

[11][12][13][14] The Maryborough Chronicle later reported that the New Bundaberg town allotments sold well, recording the buyers and prices paid while the Barolin estate did not sell so well on the day.

[18][19][20] It was on the eastern side of Burnett Heads Road halfway down the school hill.

[22] On Sunday 3 May 1931, Archbishop James Duhig consecrated a new Roman Catholic Church in Burnett Heads.

[24] Archbishop William Wand laid the foundation stone for St John the Divine Anglican Church on Sunday 6 August 1939.

[29] In 1958, the Port of Bundaberg was established at Burnett Heads to better support the sugar industry and the larger ships being employed.

[30][31][better source needed] In the 2016 census, the locality of Burnett Heads had a population of 2,656 people.

[1] The town's most notable feature is its historic timber lighthouse, the Old Burnett Heads Light, dating from 1873.

The structure, originally sited on South Head (the southern entrance to the Burnett River), was replaced by a modern structure in 1971; the original lighthouse was restored and moved to a local park off Mittelheuser Street.