Edmonton
Residential suburb of Cairns on the Bruce Highway douth of the city centre. identified in 1880 by a Melbourne biscuit manufacturer Thomas Swallow as a suitable place to produce sugar. The Hambledon mill and refinery was opened in 1883 and the sugar was taken by horse-drawn tram to Swallow's Wharf in Trinity Inlet. Swallow's investment saved the district from stagnation, but put the firm in financial difficulties. The refinery was bought by the Mayor of Cairns on a lease-back arrangement, but made little profit, and was sold to CSR in 1897 for £60,000.
Cairns local government divisional board had built a tramway to Gordonvale and a CSR line joined the tramway at Hambledon Junction. Confusion between Hambledon Mill and the Hambledon Junction railway station saw the local progress association propose changing the station's name to Edmonton, the birthplace of one of the association's members.
Eimeo
Residential suburb of Mackay north of the city's centre, extending from Mackay-Bucasia Road to a headland at the mouth of Eimeo Creek, named after the Tahitian birthplace of J.D. Armitage who occupied a pastoral run in the area in the 1870s. The Pacific Hotel (known as the 'Eimeo Pub') on the headland is the successor to Armitage's boarding house with its welcoming avenue of mango trees.
Einasleigh
Former mining town in Etheridge shire south-west of Innisfail, named after the Einasleigh River, named by Francis and Alexander Jardine on their expedition from Rockhampton to Cape York in 1864. Located on the Copperfield River, just before its junction with the Einasleigh, the town owes its existence to ore bodies discovered by Richard Daintree, in 1866. The ore bodies were not exploited until around 1900, when demand for copper at the Chillagoe smelters led to a re-exploration of the deposits. When the mining warden was laying out the township he found hotels and stores being built and by 1910 there as a hospital, a public hall and numerous business premises. The town's prosperity was aided by The Oaks goldfield (south-east) and a railway line to Chillagoe.
Copper mining ended in 1914 when the Chillagoe smelters closed, and while they reopened in 1919 falling copper prices made reopening the mine at Einasleigh unviable. The railway line was bought by the Government and kept running, currently bringing the Savannahland tourist train to town twice a week.
River, lying between the Flinders River and the Mitchell River, that combines with the Gilbert to form one of the largest river systems in northern Australia. Both streams rise in uplands to the west of the Atherton Tableland, their sources very close to each other but diverge as they flow west, the Gilbert anticlockwise and the Einasleigh clockwise. Eventually they join east of Normanton and flow in a west-northwesterly direction to the Gulf of Carpentaria. The only major tributary is the Etheridge which joins the main stems at a point very close to their convergence, with the three producing a vast estuarine delta that largely across tidal flats and mangrove swamps during the "wet" season.
El Arish
Rural settlement south of Innisfail that began as a soldier settlement sugar cane farming area in 1922, named after a Light Horse Supply depot near Suez in World War I. About 70 farms were taken up at first with cane taken to the South Johnstone mill and, after 1925, Tully.
Endeavour
River, named after Captain Cook's ship which struck a reef on 11 June 1770. Cook beached it for repairs on the river bank at the current site of Cooktown.