Yungaburra Travel Guide
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Yungaburra, located on the
Atherton Tableland in
Tropical North Queensland is an attractive National Heritage-listed village which has existed largely unchanged since 1910, with many of the original buildings still remaining. Its streets are lined with wide verandas and heritage shop fronts, now mainly occupied by craft shops, galleries, cafes and restaurants.
Prior to European settlement the area around Yungaburra was inhabited by about sixteen different indigenous groups, including the Ngadjoni people. The town of Yungaburra came into existence as a direct result of John Atherton's discoveries of tin and gold at Tinaroo Creek in 1878.
The landscape around Yungaburra has been shaped by millennia of volcanic activity, and the town is a great base from which to explore the surrounding crater lakes, waterfalls and rainforest. Pride of the natural wonders is the famous curtain fig tree whose veil of aerial roots trails 15m to the forest floor.