Musgrave
Situated within the Cook Shire locality of Yarraden, 340 kilometres northwest of Cairns and 116 kilometres northwest of Laura on the Peninsula Development Road in Yadaneru and Lama Lama country, the former Musgrave Telegraph Station was named after Queensland Governor Sir Anthony Musgrave and dates back to 1886.
Musgrave, along with Palmerville, Fairview, Coen, Mein, Moreton, McDonnell and Paterson, was a repeater station on the overland telegraph line between Mount Surprise and the tip of Cape York. All the Cape York stations (Musgrave, Coen, Mein, Morton, McDonnell and Paterson) were pre-cut and framed in Brisbane, with battery banks and a generator to power the telegraph line.
The Postmaster General's Department closed some stations on the line in the late 1920s because of high maintenance costs and low traffic. Musgrave closed in June 1929, but the site remains a link in microwave and optic fibre networks.
Image: Musgrave Telegraph Station (former) (2003) Queensland Heritage Register: Heritage branch staff, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
