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Goondi, Queensland

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39: 385: 439:). 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. Up until the 1960s the Mill had its own dairy delivering fresh milk door to door daily. It closed in 1987 after being taken over by 55: 853: 581: 886: 62: 375:
travels from south to north along Goondi's north-eastern border and crosses the Johnstone River. There is a private cane train tramway in the west of the locality, used to transport harvested sugar cane to the local sugar mill.
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There are no schools in Goondi. The nearest government primary school is Goondi State School in neighbouring Goondi Bend to the south-east. The nearest government secondary school is
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Goondi Provisional School opened on 17 February 1898. On 1 January 1909, it became Goondi State School. It was originally located on the south side of Goondi Mill Road (approx
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passes from south to north through the south-western edge of Goondi crossing the Johnstone River at the Sir Joseph McAvoy Bridge, while the
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through to the Johnstone River in the north of the locality. There is very little residential development in Goondi.
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The Goondi Sugar Mill opened in 1883, between the end of Goondi Mill Road and Knox Avenue near the Johnstone River (
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Goondi is riverside land wrapped around the southern side of an elbow-shaped bend in the
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Goondi State School 1898 - 1998 : from bend to bend
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Suburb of Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia
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meaning "elbow", referring to the bend in the river.
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Queensland

Goondi is located in Queensland
Coordinates
17°30′15″S 146°00′20″E / 17.5041°S 146.0055°E / -17.5041; 146.0055 (Goondi (centre of locality))
2021 census
Postcode(s)
Time zone
AEST
UTC+10:00
Innisfail
Cairns
Townsville
Brisbane
LGA(s)
Cassowary Coast Region
State electorate(s)
Hill
Federal division(s)
Kennedy
Fitzgerald Creek
Daradgee
Sundown
O'Briens Hill
Cullinane
Belvedere
Hudson
Goondi Bend
locality
Cassowary Coast Region

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