Barron Gorge QLD 4870
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Leichhardt Electorate › Cairns LGA › Barron Gorge · 1400 km from Brisbane
Getting Around & Local Services
1 vet
1 golf club
2 hardware stores
2 plumbers
2 places to stay
Getting around. Train station: Freshwater, 4.9 km east · Bus interchange: James Cook University Bus Station, 7.1 km north-east · Airport: Cairns Airport, 9.2 km east.
Tree cover
🌳 Tree canopy: 91.3% share of land under canopy · satellite map, 2020
Green: 10 m cells where trees dominate, satellite 2021. Blue: water. The line is the suburb boundary.
| Canopy share, 1 m canopy height map, 2020 | 91.3% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 99.9% |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
19,282 bird observations recorded near Barron Gorge — most often seen:
- Masked Lapwing (999)
- White-breasted Woodswallow (981)
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (979)
- Willie Wagtail (970)
- Peaceful Dove (954)
- Magpie-lark (830)
- Australasian Figbird (800)
- Common Myna (795)
- Metallic Starling (717)
- Australian Brush-turkey (714)
- Yellow-spotted Honeyeater (689)
- Chestnut-breasted Munia (687)
- Welcome Swallow (656)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Barron Gorge
- Crimson Finch (641)
- Rainbow Bee-eater (639)
- Bar-shouldered Dove (630)
- Rainbow Lorikeet (597)
- Torresian Imperial-pigeon (575)
- Bush Stone-curlew (527)
- Australian Swiftlet (525)
- Pacific Black Duck (511)
- Spectacled Monarch (507)
- Mistletoebird (496)
- Hornbill Helmeted Friarbird (427)
- Golden-headed Cisticola (420)
- Black Butcherbird (413)
- Brown Honeyeater (409)
- Spangled Drongo (406)
- Varied Triller (402)
- Macleay's Honeyeater (386)
Sightings reported by observers, not a survey, so the counts show what people record rather than what lives here. Source: Atlas of Living Australia.
Nearby Suburbs
The closest suburbs to Barron Gorge:
- Kamerunga (1.6 km)
- Caravonica (2.8 km)
- Barron (4.6 km)
- Redlynch (4.9 km)
- Freshwater (5.3 km)
- Speewah (6 km)
- Brinsmead (6.1 km)
- Smithfield (6.4 km)
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