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Nares Queensland
Location within Queensland
Lands administrative divisions around Nares: 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. The county is divided into civil parishes. It was named after George Nares (1831–1915), a naval officer and commander of HMS Salamander. Cairns is mentioned as being in the county of Nares in the 1911 Britannica. It is bounded by the Daintree River in the north.

Parishes

Nares is subdivided into parishes, listed as follows:

References

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.

External links

• "Map of the County of Nares (sheet 1)". Queensland Government. 1919.
• "Map of the County of Nares (sheet 2)". Queensland Government. 1919.

16°55′S 145°47′E / 16.917°S 145.783°E / -16.917; 145.783

• Counties of Queensland