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Highworth, Queensland
Highworth is a mix-use locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Highworth had a population of 301 people. Geography The locality has an area of residential development, an extension of the suburban development of neighbouring Nambour. The rest of the locality is used for agriculture, predominantly grazing on native vegetation. History The locality is believed to be named after the town Highworth in England. Highworth Provisional School opened on 27 May 1901. It became Highworth State School on 1 January 1909. It closed on 15 August 1932. In the Highworth had a population of 307 people. In the , Highworth had a population of 301 people. Education There are no schools in Highworth. The nearest primary school is Burnside State School in neighbouring Burnside to the south. The nearest secondary school is Burnside State High School Burnside State High School is a secondary education institution in Burnside, Queensland, Australia A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunshine Coast, Queensland
The Sunshine Coast is a peri-urban region in South East Queensland, Australia. It is the district defined in 1967 as "the area contained in the Shires of Landsborough, Maroochy and Noosa, but excluding Bribie Island". Located north of the centre of Brisbane in South East Queensland, on the Coral Sea coastline, its urban area spans approximately of coastline and hinterland from Pelican Waters to Tewantin. The area was first settled by Papuasians migrating from northern Australia. Europeans settled in the area in the 19th century, with development progressing slowly until tourism became an important industry. The area has several coastal hubs at Caloundra, Kawana Waters, Maroochydore and Noosa Heads. Nambour and Maleny have developed as primary commercial centres for the hinterland. Since 2014, the Sunshine Coast district has been split into two local government areas, the Sunshine Coast Region and the Shire of Noosa, which administer the southern and northern parts of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suburbs And Localities (Australia)
Suburbs and localities are the names of geographic subdivisions in Australia, used mainly for address purposes. The term locality is used in rural areas, while the term suburb is used in urban areas. Australian postcodes closely align with the boundaries of localities and suburbs. This Australian usage of the term "suburb" differs from common American and British usage, where it typically means a smaller, frequently separate residential community outside, but close to, a larger city. The Australian usage is closer to the American or British use of "district" or "neighbourhood", and can be used to refer to any portion of a city. Unlike the use in British or American English, this term can include inner-city, outer-metropolitan and industrial areas. Localities existed in the past as informal units, but in 1996 the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping and the Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia (CGNA) decided to name and establish official boundarie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burnside State High School
Burnside State High School is a secondary education institution in Burnside, Queensland, Australia, with 425 students (as of 2010) that caters for grades 7 through to 12. The school was opened in 1979. STEMM programme Burnside State High School is a participant in the Supporting Teenagers with Education Mothering and Mentoring (STEMM) programme. STEMM enables a pathway for pregnant girls and young mothers to achieve educational goals as well as providing parenting support, mentoring and community access. STEMM offers a course in the fundamentals of literacy and numeracy for girls to achieve year 10 competency. (accessed 1 May 2011) See also< ...
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Queensland Family History Society
The Queensland Family History Society (QFHS) is an incorporated association formed in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. History The society was established in 1979 as a non-profit, non-sectarian, non-political organisation. They aim to promote the study of family history local history, genealogy, and heraldry, and encourage the collection and preservation of records relating to the history of Queensland families. At the end of 2022, the society relocated from 58 Bellevue Avenue, Gaythorne Gaythorne is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Gaythorne had a population of 3,023 people. Geography Gaythorne is located seven kilometres north-west of the Brisbane central business district. It is bounded to ... () to its new QFHS Family History Research Centre at 46 Delaware Street, Chermside (). References External links * Non-profit organisations based in Queensland Historical societies of Australia Libraries in Brisbane Family hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highworth
Highworth is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Swindon, England, about northeast of Swindon town centre. The 2011 Census recorded a population of 8,151. The town is notable for its Queen Anne and Georgian buildings, dating from its pre-eminence in the 18th century. It also has a 13th-century church, St. Michael's. Etymology The root ''High'' references the geography of the town, as it sits on a hill above the Upper Thames Valley. The suffix ''-worth'' is derived from the Gothic ''𐍅𐌰𐍂'', which is transliterated as ''warō'' in Old English and as ''worth'' in Middle English. It means "those that care for, watch, guard, protect, or defend". History Highworth is on a hill in a strategic position above the Upper Thames Valley, and seems to have been occupied almost continuously for 7,000 years. It is mentioned in the Domesday Book as 'Wrde', which derives from the Old English word 'worth' meaning enclosure. The prefix 'High', owing to it being situated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pastoralism
Pastoralism is a form of animal husbandry where domesticated animals (known as "livestock") are released onto large vegetated outdoor lands (pastures) for grazing, historically by nomadic people who moved around with their herds. The animal species involved include cattle, camels, goats, yaks, llamas, reindeer, horses and sheep. Pastoralism occurs in many variations throughout the world, generally where environmental characteristics such as aridity, poor soils, cold or hot temperatures, and lack of water make crop-growing difficult or impossible. Operating in more extreme environments with more marginal lands means that pastoral communities are very vulnerable to the effects of global warming. Pastoralism remains a way of life in many geographic areas, including Africa, the Tibetan plateau, the Eurasian steppes, the Andes, Patagonia, the Pampas, Australia and many other places. , between 200 million and 500 million people globally practised pastoralism, and 75% ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nambour
Nambour is a rural town and locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Nambour had a population of 11,187 people. Geography Nambour is north of the state capital, Brisbane. The town lies in the sub-tropical hinterland of the Sunshine Coast at the foot of the Blackall Range It was the administrative centre and capital of the Maroochy Shire and is now the administrative centre of the Sunshine Coast Region. The greater Nambour region includes surrounding suburbs such as Burnside, Coes Creek, and Perwillowen. Nambour–Mapleton Road exits to the west. Etymology The name is derived from the Aboriginal word "naamba", referring to the red-flowering bottle brush ''Callistemon viminalis''. History In 1862, Tom Petrie with 25 Turrbal and Kabi Kabi men including Ker-Walli, Wanangga and Billy Dinghy entered Petrie's Creek with the view to exploit the large cedar growing in the vicinity. They encountered some resident Aboriginal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland
) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_date = Colony of Queensland , established_title2 = Separation from New South Wales , established_date2 = 6 June 1859 , established_title3 = Federation , established_date3 = 1 January 1901 , named_for = Queen Victoria , demonym = , capital = Brisbane , largest_city = capital , coordinates = , admin_center_type = Administration , admin_center = 77 local government areas , leader_title1 = Monarch , leader_name1 = Charles III , leader_title2 = Governor , leader_name2 = Jeannette Young , leader_title3 = Premier , leader_name3 = Annastacia Palaszczuk ( ALP) , legislature = Parliament of Queensland , judiciary = Supreme Court of Queensland , national_representation = Parliament of Australia , national_representation_type ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kureelpa, Queensland
Kureelpa is a locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Kureelpa had a population of 907 people. Geography Poona Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam with a toe drain with an un-gated spillway across a tributary of the South Maroochy River. The main purpose of the dam is for storage of potable water for the Sunshine Coast region. History The name Kureelpa is reportedly derived from an Aboriginal name, ''Kuril-ba'', meaning a place of rats and mice. Kureelpa Provisional School opened on 24 February 1914, becoming Kureelpa State School on 1 June 1916. The school closed on 1 December 1967. Poona State School opened on 9 November 1915 and closed on 30 June 1933. Despite the name, this school was not located in Poona in the Fraser Coast Region, but "via Nambour", possibly in the vicinity of the Poona Dam The Poona Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam with a toe drain with an un-gated spillway across a tributary of the South Maroochy Riv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AEST
Australia uses three main time zones: Australian Western Standard Time (AWST; UTC+08:00), Australian Central Standard Time (ACST; UTC+09:30), and Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST; UTC+10:00). Time is regulated by the individual state governments, some of which observe daylight saving time (DST). Australia's external territories observe different time zones. Standard time was introduced in the 1890s when all of the Australian colonies adopted it. Before the switch to standard time zones, each local city or town was free to determine its local time, called local mean time. Now, Western Australia uses Western Standard Time; South Australia and the Northern Territory use Central Standard Time; while New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Jervis Bay Territory, and the Australian Capital Territory use Eastern Standard Time. Daylight saving time (+1 hour) is used in jurisdictions in the south and south-east: South Australia, New South Wales, Vict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burnside, Queensland
Burnside is a Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Burnside had a population of 2,409 people. History According to local sources, Irish immigrants Patrick King and his wife, Mary, acquired a 314 acres (127 Ha) selection along the southern boundary of the ''Nambour Cattle Run'' in 1881. The property was named 'Burnside' derived from the Gaelic term 'burn' (meaning ''creek''), as the selection ran along today's Whalley Creek). The Whalley family (who the creek was named after) arrived in 1884. Nambour Special School opened on 24 January 1977. Burnside State School opened on 23 January 1978. (There was another Burnside State School west of Brisbane which opened in 1877 and was renamed Mulgowie, Queensland, Mulgowie State School.) Burnside State High School opened on 30 January 1979. St Joseph's Catholic High School was originally in Nambour but moved to Perwillowen Road in 1979 and was renamed St St John's C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Image Flat, Queensland
Image Flat is a rural locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Image Flat had a population of 443 people. Geography The locality is on the outskirts of Nambour. History A rural farming area, the locale was named prior to 1896. A government receiving office was opened in 1901. During the 1910s, the area had market gardens. Sugar cane was then complemented by a dairy industry, and later as free from frost, bananas. There was a notable Finnish population at one time. In the late 1890s, a sugar cane tramway was constructed that terminated at Image Flat. By 1903, the line had been extended, but having to address a 1:23 grade. The cane trolleys were being drawn by horses until picked up further along by a locomotive, for the Moreton Central Sugar Cane Company Limited. A line extension was still being sought by 1923. Sugar cane pests and diseases had an impact in the local industry in 1924. In 1954, the concern had crossed to the Panama disease in bana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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