Kanimbla At Fremantle C1945
Kanimbla may refer to: *, several ships of Royal Australian Navy *'' Kanimbla'' a Sydney K-class ferry * ''Kanimbla''-class landing platform amphibious * Kanimbla, Queensland, a suburb of the city of Cairns in Australia *Kanimbla Valley, a valley in New South Wales, see list of valleys of Australia This is a list of valleys of Australia. New South Wales The Geographical Names Board of New South Wales lists 37 valleys in the Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. * Arbon Vale * Babbage Ravine * Bindra Basin * Bromley Basin * Brumb ...

Kanimbla (ferry)
''Kanimbla'' (later ''Kurra-Ba'') was a " K-class" ferry on Sydney Harbour. Launched in 1910, the timber-hulled steamer was built for Sydney Ferries Limited during the boom in cross-harbour ferry travel prior to the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. ''Kanimbla'' was renamed "Kurra-Ba" in 1935. She was laid up in the 1940s and broken up in the 1950s. She was very similar to '' Kosciusko'' (1911), and although built by different builders, the two ferries often considered sister ships. "Kanimbla" is an Australian Aboriginal name thought to mean "big fight". Background ''Kanimbla'' was built for Sydney Ferries Limited during the early twentieth century boom in cross-Harbour travel prior to the 1932 opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. At the time, the company ran one of the largest ferry fleets in the world. The ferry was part of broader type of around 20 double-ended timber screw ferries the Sydney K-class ferries that the company commissioned between the 1890s and ea ...
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Kanimbla-class Landing Platform Amphibious
The ''Kanimbla'' class was a class of amphibious transport ships (designated Landing Platform Amphibious) operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Two ships (originally built as tank landing ships for the United States Navy) were purchased by Australia in 1994 and modified. Problems during the handover process and the need to repair previously unidentified defects meant the ships did not enter operational service until the end of the decade. Since then, the two ships have been deployed to the Solomon Islands in 2000–01, Vanuatu in 2001, and participated in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, the Australian response to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the Australian deployment to East Timor following the 2006 political crisis, and Operation Quickstep off Fiji. After a large number of defects were found in both ships during late 2010, the vessels were docked. It was decided that was beyond economic repair, and she was decommissioned in May 2011. was to be repaired and returned ...
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Kanimbla, Queensland
Kanimbla is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Kanimbla had a population of 2,670 people. Geography Kanimbla is west of the city centre. The suburb straddles the upper reaches of Moody's Creek and is bordered to the north by the Cairns Western Arterial Road (state route 91). The main road that goes through Kanimbla is Ramsey Drive. Along the middle of the northern boundary is Whites Gap. In the south west elevations reach heights greater than 500 m towards the summit of Mooroobool Peak. Cairns Regional Council announced in 2013 that land had been purchased in Kanimbla to build a detention basin to alleviate seasonal flooding in suburbs downstream. History Kanimbla is situated in the Yidinji traditional Aboriginal country. On 11 February 1989 the suburb was created from land previously in Manoora and Mooroobool. The new suburb was named for the MV Kanimbla, a coastal passenger ship which had serviced Cairns before being pressed i ...
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Kanimbla Valley
Kanimbla may refer to: *, several ships of Royal Australian Navy *'' Kanimbla'' a Sydney K-class ferry * ''Kanimbla''-class landing platform amphibious * Kanimbla, Queensland, a suburb of the city of Cairns in Australia * Kanimbla Valley, a valley in New South Wales, see list of valleys of Australia {{disambiguation ...
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