County of Nares

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Queensland
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Chelmsford Solander Pacific Ocean
Dagmar Nares Pacific Ocean
Hodgkinson Cardwell Pacific Ocean

The county of Nares is a cadastral division of Queensland which contains the city of Cairns, Innisfail and most of the Atherton Tableland.[1] The county is divided into civil parishes. It was named after George Nares (1831–1915), a naval officer and commander of HMS Salamander.[2] Cairns is mentioned as being in the county of Nares in the 1911 Britannica.[3] It is bounded by the Daintree River in the north.[4]

  1. ^ Queensland showing counties / compiled and published at the Survey Department, Brisbane, Brisbane : Survey Dept., 1900.
  2. ^ "Nares – county (entry 23870)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
  3. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Cairns" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 953.
  4. ^ Cook District, County of Nares Maps - P9 Series Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine at Queensland Archives.