Download coordinates as: Sarina Beach is a coastal town and locality in the Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia.
[2][3] In the 2021 census, the locality of Sarina Beach had a population of 661 people.
[1] The locality is bounded to east by the Coral Sea, to the south by the Sarina Inlet and Plane Creek, and to the west by the Goonyella railway line that carries coal from the Bowen Basin coalfields to Hay Point for shipping.
[5] Sarina Beach has the following coastal features (from west to east): The name ultimately derives the Sarina Inlet, believed to be named by surveyor William Charles Borlase Wilson from Greek mythology meaning enchantress.
[3] The beach became popular with beachgoers in the late 1920s with the first house built in 1928 for Mrs Campbell senior, who established a business providing dressing room facilities.