[1] Goondi is riverside land wrapped around the southern side of an elbow-shaped bend in the Johnstone River.

It is very flat land, being 0 to 10 metres above sea level, and is predominantly used for growing sugar cane and bananas.

[3] The name "Goondi' is believed to be an Aboriginal word meaning "elbow", referring to the bend in the river.

[4] During World War 2 with Japanese air attacks on northern Australia an aerial dog fight was sighted above Goondi Mill between a Japanese Zero and an Allied fighter plane, with the Zero being shot down in the cane fields.

Goondi Mill and other strategic assets had been mined at the time with explosives, and should the Japanese attack and land troops, destroyed, with planned guerilla warfare resistance based across the Atherton Tablelands.