Clifton Beach

Clifton Beach is an outer northern suburb of Cairns, 22 km from the city centre. The name is comparatively recent. In the early postwar years a local sugar cane grower, William Fairweather formed an access road from his farm, and the Mulgrave Shire Council decided to name the locality after the birthplace of his wife in Clifton on the Darling Downs.

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