Yorkeys Knob
The third of Cairns' eight Northern Beaches, Yorkeys Knob is located between Holloway's Beach and Trinity Beach in Djabugay Country on the Captain Cook Highway, approximately 13 kilometres north-northwest of the city's CBD.
The locality is predominantly low-lying land, except for the prominent rounded headland that took its name from Yorkshire-born, Cairns-based beche-de-mer fisherman George 'Yorkey' Lawson, who took up a homestead block in the vicinity in 1886 and used nearby mangroves for firewood and water at his beche-de-mer operation on Green Island.
William Varley and his wife, Matron Varley (a nursing home proprietor), acquired much of the land in the area in 1920 and subsequently subdivided it into residential allotments. While Yorkeys Knob is frequently listed as an unusual or humorous place name, locals have resisted attempts to rebadge the locality.
