Sarina - Culture and History

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Sarina - Culture and History

The town is split by the Bruce Highway which runs down the main street. There is a pleasant median strip with tropical flowers, trees and bushes. At the northern end is a rock commemorating the fact that John Atherton (after whom the Atherton Tablelands were named) was the first European to reach this area travelling overland from Rockhampton. When he was only 20 Atherton and his brother James overlanded sheep to Rockhampton from the New England district of New South Wales.

Sarina Inlet was named by a Greek surveyor in the early 1860s and by the 1870s sugar cane plantations had been established in the area. At this time the early township was known as Plain Creek and was located a little further north than the site of the present town.

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