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Kandanga
Kandanga is a town and a locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Kandanga had a population of 665 people. Geography The town is located on the Mary Valley Road ( State Route 51) north of the state capital, Brisbane and south west of Gympie, on the banks of Kandanga Creek, a tributary of the Mary River. This river forms the eastern and north-eastern boundaries of the locality. Kandanga is one of a chain of towns in the Mary Valley also including Imbil, Amamoor and Dagun. Kandanga suffered a further blow when its popular hotel burnt down. Just like the valley itself, it is being rebuilt with the determination of locals. History The name "Kandanga" may be derived from the local Kabi Aboriginal language, meaning a ''fork'' or sharp bend of the creek or it may refer to the ''cabbage tree''. Kandanga Post Office opened by June 1914 (a receiving office had been open from 1895). Kandanga State School opened in September 1915. The Kand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kandanga Creek, Queensland
Kandanga Creek is a rural locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Kandanga Creek had a population of 118 people. Geography Kandanga Creek, the creek from which the locality takes its name, rises in neighbouring Upper Kandanga and enters this locality from the south-west and flows through the locality exiting to the north-east (Kandanga), where it becomes a tributary of the Mary River. The creek forms a valley through the locality from the south-west to the north-east at elevations of above sea level. On either side of the valley the land rises into more mountainous terrain, rising to in the north-west of the locality and in the south-west of the locality. The main land use is grazing on native vegetation. History The locality takes its name from the creek, which is a Kabi word, ''koondangoor'' meaning ''mountainous''. Kandanga Creek Provisional School opened on 23 April 1900. On 1 January 1909 it became Kandanga Creek State School. It was mothb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Valley Railway Cream Sheds
Mary Valley Railway Cream Sheds are heritage-listed sheds at Kandanga railway station, Amamoor railway station and Melawondi railway station, all of them on the Mary Valley Branch Railway, Mary Valley, Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. They were designed and built by Queensland Railways. They were added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 14 October 2011. History The Mary Valley branch railway cream sheds, located at Amamoor railway station (), Kandanga and Melawondi, were built between the 1920s and 1940s by Queensland Railways, in response to the strong growth of dairying in one of Queensland's most important dairy producing regions and the reliance on rail to transport dairy produce during this period. The gradual opening of large pastoral holdings of Amamoor, Imbil and Traveston (established 1850s) in the Upper Mary River Valley for closer settlement from the late 1870s was a catalyst for the development of small cropping and dairying activities in the region. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melawondi, Queensland
Melawondi is a rural locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. It is located south of Gympie. In the Melawondi had a population of 30 people. Geography Melawondi railway station is an abandoned railway station on the Mary Valley railway line (). History The locality takes its name from a former railway station. ''Melawondi'' is believed to be the name of an Aboriginal clan. In October 2013, Hyne Timber sold their Melawondi timber mill to Superior Wood Pty Ltd. In the Melawondi had a population of 30 people. Heritage listings Melawondi has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: * Melawondi's cream shed (), one of the three Mary Valley Railway Cream Sheds Economy Melawondi Mill is a timber mill owned by Superior Wood Pty Ltd (). The mill employs approximately 100 people. Education There are no schools in Melawondi. The nearest primary school is Kandanga State School in neighbouring Kandanga to the north-west. The nearest secondary school is M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amamoor, Queensland
Amamoor is a rural town and locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. In the the locality of Amamoor had a population of 636 people. Geography Amamoor is south of Gympie. The Bruce Highway passes to the east of the town and the Amamoor Forest Reserve is to the west. Amamoor is situated on the Amamoor Creek which is a tributary of the Mary River. It is one of a chain of towns in the Mary Valley also including Imbil, Dagun, and Kandanga. History The town is named after a pastoral run held by J.D. McTaggart in the late 1850s. It is an Aboriginal word meaning ''swimming in water'' or a ''swimming creek''. When the construction of a railway line between Brisbane and Gympie was being contemplated in 1884–5, one of the routes being considered was through the Mary Valley. However, this was not the route chosen, and the residents of the valley who were disappointed at missing out on rail connection agitated for many years until the Mary Valley branch line was b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imbil, Queensland
Imbil is a rural town and locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Imbil had a population of 924 people. Geography Imbil is in the Wide Bay–Burnett district in the Mary River valley, north of the state capital, Brisbane. History The town takes its name from the Imbil pastoral run which was named 1857 by the pastoralists Clement Francis Lawless and Paul Lawless. ''Imbil'' is a Kabi word referring to the bamboo vine, and is also used to refer to a lagoon below the Imbil station house. The town was established in 1868 at the start of the gold rush in the area. In 1887, of land were resumed from the Imbil pastoral run. The land was offered for selection for the establishment of small farms on 17 April 1887. The first Imbil post office opened on 9 July 1870 and closed in 1872. The second office opened in 1877 and closed in 1907. The third office opened by 1919. Imbil Provisional School opened on 19 July 1897. Due to fluctuating student numbers, it clo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bollier, Queensland
Bollier is a rural Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. In the Bollier had a population of 200 people. History The locality takes its name either from the Aboriginal word for a vine in the area used for climbing trees, or from ''Bo-aldha'' in the Aboriginal language means "''place of the little wallaby that runs in a circle''". Runaway Irish convict Gilburri, John "Gilburri" Fahy made a reference to "Bulduer" when he was captured in 1854. Fahy lived with the Aboriginal people for thirteen years, occupying the country lying between Wide Bay (Queensland), Wide Bay and Port Curtis, Queensland, Port Curtis, called by the Aboriginal people, as Fahy says "Bulduer" The name "Bollier Flats" is shown on a 1865 survey map of the Yabba and Bunya Creeks. Bollier Provisional School opened on 22 January 1894 with 14 students. The initial school building was . It was located on a at 287 Tuckeroi Road on the corner of Lowe Road(). In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuchekoi, Queensland
Tuchekoi is a rural locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Tuchekoi had a population of 197 people. History The locality takes its namefrom Mount Tuchekoi, which in turn is believed to be a corruption of the Kabi language Kabi Kabi, also spelt Gabi-Gabi/Gubbi Gubbi, is a language of Queensland in Australia, formerly spoken by the Kabi Kabi people of South-east Queensland. The main dialect, Kabi Kabi, is extinct, but there are still 24 people with knowledge of th ... ''dha/chu/koi'' meaning ''place of fig trees''. Geography The '' Mary River'' forms the western boundary, while ''Skyring Creek'' forms the northern boundary on its way to join the ''Mary''. References {{Gympie Region Gympie Region Localities in Queensland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traveston Crossing Dam
Traveston Crossing Dam was a proposed water project that was initiated by the state government of Queensland, Australia, in 2006 as a result of a prolonged drought which saw South-East Queensland's dam catchment area receive record-low rain. The project was cancelled in November 2009, after being refused approval by federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett. Planning The dam was proposed to stretch from the Traveston Crossing Bridge near Amamoor, 160 kilometres (99 miles) north of Brisbane, south and affect the areas surrounding Bergins Pocket and Kandanga. The dam would have affected major transport arteries through the area, including the North Coast Railway Line and the Bruce Highway. The planned damming of the Mary River was not a popular idea with local residents who would have been directly affected by its construction, nor for the wider national and international community concerned about the impact on the many endangered and vulnerable species living in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dagun, Queensland
Dagun is a rural town and locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Dagun had a population of 150 people. It is one of a chain of towns in the Mary Valley also including Amamoor, Imbil, and Kandanga. Geography Amamoor Creek, a tributary of the Mary River, forms most of the eastern boundary. Mary Valley Road ( State Route 51) passes through the eastern part of the locality from north to south. The Mary Valley Branch Railway passes through from north-east to south-east. Dagun railway station serves the town (). History The town takes its name from the railway station, which was named on 22 January 1914, using an Aboriginal word meaning ''home camp''. The Dagun State School opened on 18 June 1924. Dagun Post Office opened on 1 June 1925 (a receiving office had been open from 1920) and closed in 1975. In the , the locality of Dagun had a population of 150 people. Heritage listings Dagun has the following heritage listings: * 39 Dagun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Road Routes In Queensland
Road routes in Queensland assist drivers navigating roads throughout the state, by identifying important through-routes. Queensland is in the process of converting to an alphanumeric route numbering system, with a letter denoting the importance and standard of the route. The previous shield-based system consisted of various route types – national highways, national routes, and state routes – with each type depicted by a different route marker design. Some routes have been converted to the alphanumeric system, while other routes are being maintained as shield-based routes – but with signs designed to be subsequentially retrofitted with a replacement alphanumeric route. Tourist drives will continue to use a shield-based system. Unless stated otherwise, all information in this article is derived from Google Maps. Alphanumeric routes Brisbane routes Regional routes Active Metroads National Highways and Routes State Routes State Routes on the Gold Coast and in re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gympie Region
The Gympie Region is a local government area in the Wide Bay–Burnett region of Queensland, Australia, about north of Brisbane, the state capital. It is between the Sunshine Coast and Hervey Bay and centred on the town of Gympie. It was created in 2008 from a merger of the Shires of Cooloola and Kilkivan and part of the Shire of Tiaro. The Regional Council, which governs the Region, has an estimated operating budget of A$50 million. History ''Gubbi Gubbi (Kabi Kabi, Cabbee, Carbi, Gabi Gabi)'' is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken on Gubbi Gubbi country. The Gubbi Gubbi language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Sunshine Coast Region and Gympie Region, particularly the towns of Caloundra, Noosa Heads, Gympie and extending north towards Maryborough and south to Caboolture''.'' Prior to the 2008 amalgamation, the Gympie Region existed as four distinct local government areas: * the Shire of Cooloola; ** the City of Gympie; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coles Creek, Queensland
Coles Creek is a rural locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Coles Creek had a population of 44 people. History Traveston Provisional School opened on 24 August 1891. In 1907 the school was renamed Skyring's Creek Provisional School. On 1 January 1909 it became Skyring's Creek State School. In 1915 the school was renamed Coles Creek State School. It closed on 27 February 1961. The school was located on the northern corner of the Old Bruce Highway and Coles Creek Road (approx ). In the , Coles Creek had a population of 44 people. Geography The '' Mary River'' forms the western and south-western boundaries. ''Coles Creek'' (the watercourse) flows through from east to north, where it forms part of the northern boundary before it joins the ''Mary''. ''Skyring Creek'' forms the southern boundary before it flows into the ''Mary''. Road infrastructure The Bruce Highway The Bruce Highway is a major highway in Queensland, Australia. Commencing in the sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
