Mapoon

The place is in the end of the main road north from Weipa.
   

As you enter the community along the main street there are the general store,
   

... the Aboriginal shire council,
   

... and a cultural centre.

West of the community is the Back Beach,

... Janie Creek,
   

.. and a sandy drive to the old Turtle Camp in the creek mouth.
   

East is Cullen Point,

... a popular place to camp and fish.

And in the middle, right at the beachfront in the end of the main street, is the sign that used to be at the community entrance along the main road.
   

"Welcome to Old Mapoon" suits a lot better here, because this is exactly where the Old Mapoon was.
   

On the beautiful beach where there is a memorial now, was the old Mapoon Mission Station.
   

You can see the exact sites and the little that is left from the mission house, the J. G. Ward Memorial Church, a school, boys' and girls' dormitories, a dispensary and a hospital, a store, a butchery, gardens and wells.
   

In 1963 when a lot of the areas around Weipa became mining lease, the community was forcibly moved to what is now New Mapoon. Years later people started moving back, but the old buildings were destroyed meanwhile.

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