Mackay

Also known as Mackay, Queensland, Mackay, Queensland, Australia

city in Queensland, Australia

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Place details

Locality: Mackay
Region: Queensland
Country: Australia
Population: 121,691
Timezone: Australia/Brisbane

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Key facts

Country: Australia
State: Queensland
Lga: Mackay Region
Location: 336 km (209 mi) NNW of Rockhampton 387 km (240 mi) SE of Townsville 966 km (600 mi) NNW of Brisbane
State electorates: Mackay (central and eastern suburbs) Mirani (south-western suburbs) Whitsunday (north-eastern suburbs) Burdekin (north-western areas)
Federal divisions: Capricornia Dawson
Total: 212.4 km (82.0 sq mi)
Elevation: 11.0 m (36.1 ft)
Density: 397.05/km (1,028.35/sq mi)
Time zone: UTC+10:00 ( AEST )
Mean max temp: 27.1 °C (80.8 °F)
Mean min temp: 17.8 °C (64.0 °F)
Annual rainfall: 1,606.9 mm (63.26 in)

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Mackay
Population: 80455
Elevation: 11
Official website: www.mackay.qld.gov.au
Image: Mackay City Heart Bank building.jpg

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Commons category: Mackay, Queensland
inception: 1875-00-00
native label: Mackay
time of earliest written record: 1860-00-00
postal code: 4740
maximum temperature record: 39.7
minimum temperature record: -0.4
P12749: DEFLATE

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Travel guide

Get around

Limited bus services run in the Mackay region. Cars can be hired from the airport.

Taxis are available from major shopping centres and individuals can call the service to be picked up from a specified destination.

Bicycles (push bikes) are a good fit for city transportation. Projects are ongoing to expand current bicycle routes, one long route exists from West of the city to the Canelands shopping area.

See

Harbour Beach and The Marina Eungella National Park Cape Hillsborough National Park The Whitsunday Islands Mackay Regional Botanical Gardens Artspace Mackay Historical Farleigh Mill - tours run daily (Monday to Friday) during the sugar season: July - November

Buy

Mackay has two major shopping centres

Mount Pleasant Greenfields located on the Corner Phillip Street and the Bruce Highway Mount Pleasant (affectionately known by locals as "Mount P") contains major retailers such as K Mart Woolworths Coles

Greenfields is a shopping precinct located across the road from Mount Pleasant. Occupants include:

Silly Sollys Spotlight Sams Warehouse Clark Rubber Autobarn World Gym Birch Carroll and Coyle Cinema's

Caneland Central is undergoing expansion, it is located on Mangrove Road and includes major retailers such as Target Big W Woolworths Coles Myer Action Best and Less City Beach Rush Surfwear Mathers Shoes Spend Less Shoes Vodafone Crazy Johns Telstra Optus EB Games Tarocash

Eat

Try the eateries at the Marina overlooking the boats - loverly cool breeziest. Mid range prices.

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Article

Mackay (/məˈkaɪ/ mə-KYE) is a city in the Mackay Region on the eastern or Coral Sea coast of Queensland, Australia. It is located about 803 kilometres (499 mi) north of Brisbane, on the Pioneer River. Mackay is described as being in either Central Queensland or North Queensland, as these regions are not precisely defined. More generally, the area is known as the Mackay–Whitsunday Region. Nicknames of Mackay include the Sugar capital, Alexandra and Macktown.

Founded in 1862 on land traditionally owned by the Yuwibara (Yuibera) Indigenous people, the settlement was originally known as Alexandra, in honour of Princess Alexandra of Denmark, and was later renamed Mackay after John Mackay. Sugar became the economic foundation of the city, with plantations using indentured or enslaved South Sea Islanders. From about 1891, Mediterranean migrants from Italy and Malta began to work the sugarcane plantations, and by the 1930s one third of Australia’s Italian migrants lived in North Queensland. The city was nearly destroyed in the 1918 cyclone, and the following reconstruction used primarily Art Deco and Spanish Mission architectural styles for which the city is known.