Green Hill, Queensland


Green Hill is a locality in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the, Green Hill had a population of 159 people.

Geography

Pine Creek Yarrabah Road forms the western boundary of the locality, while the eastern boundary is formed by a mountain ridge. The land in the west of the locality is lower-lying freehold land used for agriculture and some rural residences. The land in the east of the locality is mountainous and undeveloped land rising rapidly from 50 metres above sea level to the mountain ridge on the eastern boundary, where the highest peak is Grey Peaks. The north-east of the locality is protected as the Malbon Thompson Forest Reserve, while the south-east of the locality is the Grey Peaks National Park.
There are cane tramways in the western part of the locality to transport the harvested sugarcane to the Mulgrave Sugar Mill.
There are no access roads and no public facilities in the Grey Peaks National Park. Due to the steep terrain, the area has not been logged and contains a mixture of sclerophyll and rainforest vegetation. The sclerophyll forest contains red mahogany Eucalyptus pellita and red turpentine Syncarpia glomulifera trees.
There is a small hill, called Green Hill, in the south-west of the locality. The hill is the remnant of a volcano that erupted about 15,000 years ago. It is believed that the volcano's eruption altered the course of the Mulgrave River so that instead of having its mouth on Trinity Inlet, the mouth become directly onto the Coral Sea some 40 km further south. However, further research has shown river sediments above the basalt flows and it is now believed that other factors such as alluvial sediments may have altered the river's course and that perhaps it has alternated between the two mouths over time.

History

Green Hill is situated in the Yidinji traditional Aboriginal country.
The locality was originally called Crescent Hill, but was renamed Green Hill around the 1890s.