Doomadgee, Queensland
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| Coordinates: 17°56′39″S 138°49′48″E / 17.9443°S 138.8300°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Queensland | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 1,387 (2021 census) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 4830 | ||||||||||||
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Doomadgee is an outback town and locality in the Aboriginal Shire of Doomadgee, Queensland, Australia. It is a mostly Indigenous community, situated about 140 kilometres (87 mi) from the Northern Territory border, and 93 kilometres (58 mi) west of Burketown. The settlement began with the establishment of the Doomadgee Mission in 1933, which relocated from Bayley Point to Nicholson River in 1936. In the 2021 census, the locality of Doomadgee had a population of 1,387 people.