Download coordinates as: Tinana is a rural town and locality in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.[6][2] The Bruce Highway enters the locality from the south (Tinana South), bypasses the town of Tinana to the west, and then exits the locality to the north (Maryborough West / Maryborough) crossing the Mary River on the Henry Palmer Bridge.Gympie Road (State Route 57) diverges from the Bruce Highway, passing through the town of Tinana, and exits the locality to the north-east across the Lamington Bridge to the Maryborough CBD.[2][7] Although originally a separate town, the construction of the Lamington Bridge over the Mary River has effectively made Tinana a suburb of Maryborough.The name is believed to be in honour of Ihikiera Te Tinana, a Māori chief who was known to the botanist John Carne Bidwill from his time in New Zealand in 1840–41.