page_title: Machans Beach, Queensland
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Machans Beach, Queensland / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking upstream of Redden Creek (off shoot of Barron River) from Gundy Anton Bridge, Machans Beach, 2018
context_page_description: Machans Beach is a beach and coastal suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Machans Beach had a population of 1,051 people.
context_section_description: The Barron River and Barr Creek are respectively the southern and northern boundaries of the suburb, while the Coral Sea and Captain Cook Highway form the eastern and western boundaries.
  The land is flat and just above sea level. The residential development is in the east of the suburb near the coast. The north-eastern coastline is a rocky sea wall, but the south-eastern coastline has a sand beach with the two sections separated by Redden Creek, which flows from the Barron River as a second mouth on the Coral Sea, creating an area known as Redden Island. The Gundy Anton Bridge crosses Redden Creek to connect the mainland part of Machans Beach with Redden Island.
  Redden Island is an important habit and feeding ground for shorebirds with over 100 species of bird being recorded there, including some rare and endangered species such as the eastern curlew, the great knot, the curlew sandpiper, the bar-tailed godwit, the red knot, and the lesser sand plover. These migratory shorebirds travel up to 25,000 km each year on their migration between Australian and Asia, some travelling as far north as Siberia and Japan.
  The majority of the suburb is still used as freehold farming land with sugarcane the predominant crop.
caption: Looking upstream on Redden Creek (offshoot of the Barron River), 2018
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