It is almost certain that the town was named for the parish of Airlie, in Scotland, as the name was suggested by the chairman of the former Proserpine Shire Council, who was born in nearby Montrose, Scotland.
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Its beach is small and the sea is inhabited by marine stingers, the box jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri) from November to May.
:*1530 UTC – Severe Tropical Cyclone Ului makes landfall near Airlie Beach, Queensland
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She was built in the Netherlands in 1902 and is currently operated out of Airlie Beach, Australia as a holiday sailor in the Whitsunday Islands.
Airlie Beach/Cannonvale/Cannonvalley sustained relatively minor damage due to them being sheltered from most of the damaging winds by the conway ranges which the Conway National Park is part of.