18-621: The Annan River ( Kuku Nyungkal : Yuku Baja ) is a river in the Wet Tropics of Far North Queensland , Australia. The river rises in the Yorkey Range below Mount Romeo near Rossville , north-northwest of Wujal Wujal . The river flows generally in a north-westerly direction, joined by three minor tributaries that drain waters from the Trevethan Range before finally heading eastwards to Walker Bay. At its river mouth ,
36-520: A wet-dry tropical climate the river receives the majority of its approximately 1,800-millimetre (71 in) rainfall per year between the months of December and April, a period known as the wet season . The river is crossed by the Mulligan Highway near Rossville and again closer to its mouth. The river was given its gazetted name by an early Australian pastoralist and magistrate , John Jardine, who, on 11 November 1865, named it after
54-573: A small-scale tin mining rush into Kuku Nyungkal country during 1886. Following this rush, for a number of years, a small but vibrant tin mining industry was able to mine lucrative tin deposits directly from underground lodes, creek beds and banks. Later, the industry had to adapt to exhausted supplies by consolidating and building water channels (races) through the Upper Annan River ranges to access higher, more difficult to reach deposits. One such 11-kilometre (6.8 mi)-long race, known as
72-718: The Australasian Underwater Cultural Heritage Database (AUCHD), a searchable online database containing data about shipwrecks , aircraft and other cultural heritage artefacts which are or have been underwater. The AUCHD also served as the register of protected underwater cultural heritage for the Underwater Cultural Heritage Act 2018 (the UCH Act), providing a means whereby the public could submit notifications and permit applications required under
90-594: The Department of Communications and the Arts . The project aims to "identify and document critically-endangered languages — those languages for which little or no documentation exists, where no recordings have previously been made, but where there are living speakers". Kuku Nyungkal has three vowels as follows: Kuku Nyungkal has thirteen consonants as follows: All are pronounced as they would be in English, with
108-704: The River Annan in Scotland , while on passage in HMS ; Salamander . Many of the river's waterfalls, waterholes, and waters have indigenous names, inspired by local indigenous religious beliefs , and have been a primary source of life, sustenance, foods, and water for many thousands of generations of predecessors to the Kuku Nyungkal people (also known as the Annan River Tribe). Towards
126-565: The Act. The website also hosted a number of other databases and applications in the areas of biodiversity , climate change , heritage , the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act), environmental protection , land and water, as well as photo galleries of Australian plants, and environmental and cultural heritage subjects. [REDACTED] Media related to Australian Government Department of
144-580: The Annan River Company Water Race, was first built at the cost of an Adelaide based company in 1902 and is now cultural heritage listed and protected as Queensland heritage. The tin mining and other "disturbance" history of the otherwise more pristine Annan River catchment can be briefly summarized as follows: "This catchment has been quite extensively mined for tin since the late 19th century. Some small alluvial tin mining leases may still ... contribute significant sediment loads to
162-651: The Annan River catchment as "Low Development", with less than 30% of its total catchment area being developed . The catchment as a whole has been described as being "...at the pristine end of the disturbance spectrum...", extensively forested as follows: "...the southern and eastern portions [are] predominantly rainforest and open eucalypt forest. The western and northern parts are more sparsely vegetated consisting of open eucalypt forest and woodland with pockets of rainforest along Oaky Creek. The alluvial plains are covered by tall shrubland . The estuarine portion of
180-652: The Annan River is joined by the Esk River and together the two rivers empty into the Coral Sea south of Cooktown . The river descends 568 metres (1,864 ft) over its 66-kilometre (41 mi) course and flows through the Kalkajaka National Park and the Annan River (Yuku Baja-Muliku) National Park . The river has a catchment area of 750 square kilometres (290 sq mi). Being in
198-696: The department's responsibilities as follows: The head of the department was its Secretary , Finn Pratt AO PSM , responsible to the Minister for the Environment and Energy , the Hon. Melissa Price MP until 2019, and then the Hon. Sussan Ley MP . The department was staffed by individuals from the Australian Public Service . As of 2019 , the DEE website also hosted
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#1732771956749216-573: The end of the 19th century non- Aboriginal peoples had started to colonize the Far North Queensland region, and with the shift from predominantly gold mining activity (especially at Palmer River ) to tin , lead , silver and copper mining, they started to move into the Annan River catchment and Kuku Nyungkal country. By 1885 Charles Ross had discovered tin in the upper Annan River area (firstly Mount Amos, then Mounts Hartley, Leswell and Romeo). Sluicing began that year, leading to
234-482: The river comprises large areas of ephemeral and tidal wetlands ..." Kuku Nyungkal dialect The Kuku Nyungkal dialect (also written Kuku Nyungkul , Kuku Njunggal , Guugu Nyungkul , Gugu Njunggal , Kuku Njungkul , Kuku Ngungkal ) is an Australian Aboriginal language and the language of the Kuku Nyungkal people of Far North Queensland . It is a variety of Kuku Yalanji still being spoken (though by fewer people than speak Kuku Yalanji itself). Most of
252-558: The river. Other disturbances in the Annan catchment include unsealed roads and fords, grazing, and a number of small residential developments." The heritage-listed Annan River Bridge , located on Development Road, Cooktown, is a rare example of a plate girder and screw pile bridge. It is also an uncommon example of a low-level bridge. The Department of the Environment Natural Resource Atlas categorized
270-551: The rr used for a rolled r, as in the Scottish r. This Australian Aboriginal languages -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Department of the Environment (Australia) The Department of the Environment and Energy ( DEE ) was an Australian government department in existence between 2016 and 2020. The department was responsible for matters including environment protection and conservation of biodiversity as well as energy policy . It
288-747: The speakers today live in the communities of Wujal Wujal and Mossman . The UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger includes Kuku Nyungkal language as part of a larger Kuku Yalanji languages listing, identifying and listing all the Kuku Yalanji languages as a whole as being "severely endangered". As of 2020 , Kuku Ngungkal is one of 20 languages prioritised as part of the Priority Languages Support Project, being undertaken by First Languages Australia and funded by
306-554: Was established in July ;2016 by the Turnbull government after the 2016 federal election . Following the appointment of Scott Morrison as Prime Minister , Josh Frydenberg was elevated to Treasurer of Australia , whereby Frydenberg's previous ministerial positions were separated, with Melissa Price as Minister of the Environment and Angus Taylor as Minister for Energy. Price was reshuffled from her position in 2019, and
324-467: Was replaced by Sussan Ley . By an administrative order issued on 5 December 2019 and effective from 1 February 2020, the environment functions of the department were merged with all functions of the Department of Agriculture , to form the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment . The department's energy functions were transferred to the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources . The Administrative Arrangements Orders listed
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