Description
Clifton Beach is a coastal suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.
Clifton Beach is a coastal suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. The population of the suburb recorded at the 2016 Australian Census the suburb was 3,146.
History
Clifton Beach is situated in the Djabugay (Tjapukai) traditional Aboriginal country.
Clifton Beach was named as a suburb 2 May 1959 after Clifton, Perthshire, Scotland, which was the birthplace of Mary Hunter Smart, a settler in the area in the 1880s. Clifton Beach Post Office opened on 2 June 1969.
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Population: 1,001 - 10,000
Time zone: UTC +10:00
Area: 5.733 km2
Elevation: 11 to 50 metres
Town elevation: 19 m
Population number: 3,146
Local Government Area: Cairns Regional Council