Sandwich
Cape, named by Cook on 8 June 1770 after the Earl of Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty 1763.
Shoalwater
Bay named by Cook on 28 May 1770.
Smiths Landing
Former name for port district of Cairns located at the mouth of Smiths Creek, with wharves and the Cairns Pineapple Cannery (demolished 1985) along the west side of the creek. Now known as Portsmith.
Snapper
Island at the mouth of the Daintree River 20 km north of Port Douglas, part of the traditional sea country of the Kuku Yalanji Aboriginal people. In the early 1900s, Jerry Doyle operated a lime kiln on the island, fired by wood from the Daintree, ferried over on a vessel called the "Nellie". Beche-de-mer processing may also have taken place and there may have been a Chinese market garden on the island. The island was a stopover by George Elphinstone Dalrymple before he discovered the Daintree River.
Sorghum Downs
Gulf country station on the Lower Cloncurry taken up in 1864 by Murdoch Campbell. Campbell died in 1867 and the property seems to have been absorbed into Canobie.
South Molle
Resort island in the Whitsunday section of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, one of a group named by Lieutenant Charles Jefferys in 1815 after Colonel George James Molle, the Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales. Other islands in the group include Mid Molle, North Molle, East Molle and West Molle (Daydream Island).
Established in 1937, the resort lies at the northern end of the island, well protected from the south easterly trade winds. The resort area, now known as South Molle Island Resort, is owned by Koala Adventures and has a nine hole golf course in addition to 200 rooms that can accommodate 600 guests.[1] In 1961 a large jetty was built to replace a smaller jetty that could only be used at high tide.
Staaten
River on Cape York Peninsula that rises west of Cairns and empties into the Gulf of Carpentaria, named by Dutch sea explorer Jan Carstenz in 1623.
Wet season runoff overflows into intertwining lagoons that create an enormous wetland with a vast congregation of waterbirds from all over Australia and as far away as China and Russia. The coastal margin of the Staaten River forms part of the Southeast Karumba Plan wetland, which provides habitat and breeding grounds for birds, fish, and other native wildlife. The Staaten River National Park, covering around 467,000 hectares, is one of Australia's largest National Parks.
Stannery Hills
Former mining town in the Herberton Minerals Area that developed after 1883 discoveries of tin lodes on the headwaters of Eureka Creek (the Middle Walsh River), named from the Latin 'Stannum', meaning tin and surveyed on 7 September 1903 by M. Amos. The initial campsite was the 14 Mile, then the town was known as Eureka after the creek on which it was situated.
At its peak, Stannery Hills had a population of 800, with half of them employed in mining and woodcutting. In 1906 there were five hotels, seven stores (including one of the Jack and Newell chain), a post office and a station on the Irvinebank tramway. By 1924 numerous miners and two hotels continued, but ten years later only a few miners and the Federal Hotel were left.
Irvinebank was connected to the Mareeba-Chillagoe rail line by a tramway that ran via Stannery Hills, missing Montalbion and Watsonville, and ran until 1936, giving Stannery Hills a longer life than the other two towns. By 1948 the last hotel had been removed and the town was disappearing, though the post office existed until 1955.