Rossville, Queensland
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Page Template:Infobox Australian place/styles.css has no content.Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Rossville is a town and coastal locality in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia.[2][3] In the 2021 census, the locality of Rossville had a population of 253 people.[1]
Geography
Helenvale is a neighbourhood within the north-west of the locality (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.).[4][5]
The Hope Islands are an island group 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) off the east coast of Rossville (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.).[6]
The Annan River and East Normanby River both rise on the slopes of the Trevethan Range in the south of Rossville.[5]
The boundaries of the locality extend into the Coral Sea to incorporate the two Hope Islands into the locality (unofficially known as East Hope and West Hope to distinguish them). The Hope Islands are entirely within the Hope Islands National Park.[5][7]
History
The Hope Island are traditionally part of the sea country of the Kuku Yalanji Aboriginal people.[7]
The Hope Islands were named by Lieutenant James Cook of HMS Endeavour on 13 June 1770. After the Endeavour had become stranded on the Endeavour Reef, Cook hoped that they might reach the islands after freeing the ship.[8]
Rossville Provisional School opened circa 1898 and became Rossville State School on 1 January 1909. It closed in 1964. A new Rossville State School opened on 25 January 1988.[9][10]
Demographics
In the 2016 census, the locality of Rossville had a population of 204 people.[11]
In the 2021 census, the locality of Rossville had a population of 253 people.[1]
Heritage listings
Rossville has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
- Collingwood Water Race (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.)[12]
Education
Rossville State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at Angus Gully Road (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.).[13][14] In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 32 students with 3 teachers and 7 non-teaching staff (3 full-time equivalent).[15] In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 28 students with 2 teachers and 5 non-teaching staff (2 full-time equivalent).[16]
There are no secondary schools in Rossville with the nearest government secondary school being Cooktown State School in neighbouring Cooktown, 31.1 kilometres (19.3mi) to the north. However, students in the south of Rossville would be too distant to attend this school with the alternatives being distance education and boarding school.[17]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Rossville (town) (entry 29128)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 31 May 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Rossville (locality) (entry 46138)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 31 May 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Helenvale – locality unbounded in Cook Shire (entry 15666)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ a b c Template:Queensland Globe
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Hope Islands – island group in the Shire of Cook (entry 16113)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Hope Islands National Park". Parks and Forests. Queensland Government. 24 May 2019. Archived from the original on 4 June 2019. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Hope Islands – island group in the Cook Shire (entry 16113)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Queensland Family History Society (2010), Queensland schools past and present (Version 1.01 ed.), Queensland Family History Society, ISBN 978-1-921171-26-0
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Opening and closing dates of Queensland Schools". Queensland Government. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
- ^ Template:Census 2016 AUS
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Collingwood Water Race (entry 602257)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."State and non-state school details". Queensland Government. 9 July 2018. Archived from the original on 21 November 2018. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Rossville State School". Rossville State School. 20 January 2020. Archived from the original on 21 March 2020. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."ACARA School Profile 2017". Archived from the original on 22 November 2018. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."ACARA School Profile 2018". Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. Archived from the original on 27 August 2020. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Layers: Locality; Schools and school catchments". Queensland Globe. Queensland Government. Retrieved 15 February 2026.
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