Fishery Falls, Queensland

Download coordinates as: Fishery Falls is a locality in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

Today, there is no railway station within Fishery Falls, but historically there were three, all now abandoned (from north to south): There is also a cane tramway network within the area to deliver the sugarcane to the Mulgrave Sugar Mill in Gordonvale.

[3] Although there is no official town, there is a hotel, a large caravan park, and a number of streets of houses clustered just west of the Bruce Highway at 17°11′02″S 145°53′10″E / 17.1840°S 145.8862°E / -17.1840; 145.8862 (Fishery Falls (township)), although the school is located 2 km south of this township.

[12] As the name suggests, the school is located very near to McDonnell Creek approximately 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) south of the township.

[13] The South Sea Islander Memorial at the corner of the Bruce Highway and McMahon Drive commemorates over 60,000 Kanakas who were contracted to work in the sugarcane plantations from 1863 to 1906.

Bruce Highway crosses Fishery Creek, 2018
Fishery Falls township along the Bruce Highway, 2018