Download coordinates as: Silkwood is a rural town and locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.

[1] Silkwood is situated on the Bruce Highway roughly halfway between Tully and Innisfail.

The north-western border of the locality is Liverpool Creek, which flows eastward to the Coral Sea.

[11] St John's Catholic School was founded by the parish priest Father Alfred Natali and the Missionary Franciscan Sisters.

It opened on 2 February 1948 with students mostly from Italian families who worked in the local sugarcane industry.

It was an imposing whitewashed concrete structure, intended to be something different, which has been described variously looking like a "Disney fairytale" and a "mosque".

In 1939, Silkwood resident Alfia Tornabene (née Patti) had just given birth to a daughter in Innisfail Hospital, becoming seriously ill.

The festival typically consists of a Mass, a procession of the statues through the streets accompanied by bands, feasting, music, dancing and fireworks.