Most of the northern part of Farnborough is occupied by the Capricorn International Resort which includes a golf course.

The northernmost tip of Farnborough is a mixture of Crown land and the Byfield National Park.

[5]In 1889, there was a bad growing season and insufficient sugarcane was grown to make the mill profitable.

[8] In 1971, a Japanese syndicate headed by Yohachiro Iwasaki acquired hundreds of thousands of hectares of beachfront land including wetlands in Farnborough to build a resort.

The acquisition caused widespread outrage, given that Australian citizens and developers had been refused to buy the land on several occasions prior, and also due to the belief that the deal was corrupted by kickbacks at the Queensland Government level.

When construction began, the Yeppoon RSL club posted an anti-Japanese display on their lawns.

Local discontent reached its climax on 29 November 1980, the day of the Queensland Election, when a bomb was set off at Iwasaki Resort.