Hull Heads, Queensland


Hull Heads is a coastal town and locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the, Hull Heads had a population of 113 people.
Googarra Beach is a second town within the locality on its southern coast which failed to develop.

History

It was originally named Googarra until renamed Hull by the Queensland Place Names Board on 1 November 1963. The town take its name from the Hull River, which in turn was named after surveyor Alfred Arthur Hull, who worked in the area from 1870 to 1872.
Googarra is believed to be a corruption of the Aboriginal name Galmora, known by Europeans as Jackey Jackey who was a member of Edmund Kennedy's exploration of Cape York Peninsula; the town of Googarra Beach was named by Queensland Place Names Board on 1 November 1963.