Jardine River is a coastal locality split between the Shire of Cook and the Shire of Torres in Queensland, Australia. In the , Jardine River had "no people or a very low population".
Most of the locality is within protected areas apart from small areas in the north and east of the locality.
The locality takes its name from the river Jardine River which was originally called Deception River but was renamed by Governor of Queensland George Ferguson Bowen after Francis Lascelles Jardine and Alexander William Jardine. In 1864âÂÂ1865 the Jardines overlanded stock from Rockhampton to Somerset on the Cape York Peninsula.
In the , Jardine River had "no people or a very low population".
In the , Jardine River had "no people or a very low population".
There are no schools in Jardine River. The nearest government primary school and secondary school is Northern Peninsula Area College which has primary school campus in neighbouring Injinoo to the west and primary school and secondary schools campuses in Bamaga to the north. However, students in the south of the locality would be too distant to attend the college; the alternatives are distance education and boarding school.