town, northeastern Queensland, Australia, 19 miles (31 km) upstream from the mouth of the Herbert River. Founded in 1864, it was gazetted a shire in 1879. On a rail line and the Bruce Highway from Brisbane (745 miles 【1,199 km】 southeast), the town serves important sugarcane plantations, pioneered in the 1870s by William Ingham, for whom the town is named. The area also yields tobacco, beef, and timber. Pop. (2006) 4,726.