| Type: | suburb |
| Mount Jukes | |
| State: | qld |
| Coordinates: | -20.9805°N 148.9716°W |
| Pop: | 373 |
| Postcode: | 4740 |
| Area: | 75.3 |
| Timezone: | AEST |
| Utc: | +10:00 |
| Dist1: | 8.6 |
| Dir1: | S |
| Location1: | Seaforth |
| Dist2: | 35.1 |
| Dir2: | NW |
| Location2: | North Mackay |
| Dist3: | 41.1 |
| Dir3: | NW |
| Location3: | Mackay CBD |
| Dist4: | 1012 |
| Dir4: | NNW |
| Location4: | Brisbane |
| Lga: | Mackay Region |
| Stategov: | Whitsunday |
| Fedgov: | Dawson |
| Near-N: | Ball Bay |
| Near-Ne: | Cape Hillsborough Belmunda |
| Near-E: | Coral Sea |
| Near-Se: | The Leap |
| Near-S: | Kuttabul |
| Near-Sw: | Kuttabul |
| Near-W: | Kuttabul |
| Near-Nw: | Seaforth |
Mount Jukes is a mountain and surrounding coastal rural locality north of Mackay in the Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia.[1] [2] In the, Mount Jukes had a population of 373 people.
The locality is bounded to the east by the Coral Sea, to the south-east by Constant Creek which flows into the Coral Sea, and to the south-west by Nielson Creek, a tributary of Constant Creek.
There are three sections of the Pioneer Peaks National Park in the west, south-west and south of the locality.
The mountain Mount Jukes is located in the south-west of the locality within the south-western section of the national park and the Central Mackay Coast IBRA Region.[3] It rises to above sea level and is composed of igneous rock that has been weathered and eroded.[4] [5]
Mount Adder is another mountain within the western section of the national park (-20.9834°N 148.9188°W) rising to .[6] The mountains originated from volcanic activity approximately 32 million years ago.[7]
Apart from the national parks, the land use is a mixture of crop growing (mostly sugarcane), grazing on native vegetation and rural residential housing.
Offshore is Sand Bay (-20.95°N 149.054°W).[8] [9]
Yakapari-Seaforth Road enters the locality from the south (Kuttabul) and exits to the north-west (Seaforth). There is a network of cane tramways in the locality to transport the harvested sugarcane to the local sugar mills operated by Mackay Sugar.
Mount Jukes has a species of shrubs growing in its trees called the Mount Blackwood holly (Graptophyllum ilicifolium), a species only found in Mount Blackwood area.[10]
Mount Jukes was named by George Elphinstone Dalrymple in 1862 after geologist Joseph Beete Jukes, who served as a naturalist on the explorations of from 1842 to 1846.[1]
In 1896, Harold Forster Blaxland had purchased land on Mount Jukes to open a coffee plantation. Eight acres of coffee plants were planted in 1897 and a further seven was planted in the following years. Due to financial struggles the coffee plantation closed in 1919.[11]
In the, Mount Jukes had a population of 394 people.
In the, Mount Jukes had a population of 373 people.
There are no schools in Mount Jukes. The nearest government primary schools are Seaforth State School in neighbouring Seaforth to the north-west and Hampden State School in neighbouring Hampden to the south. The nearest government secondary schools is Mackay North State High School in North Mackay to the south-east.[12]
There is a boat ramp in Howell's Road into Constant Creek (-21.0097°N 148.9974°W). It is managed by the Mackay Regional Council.[13]