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Smoky Creek, Queensland
Jambin is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Banana, Queensland, Australia. Geography Jambin is located in Central Queensland on the Burnett Highway which runs roughly north-south through the town. Callide Creek is immediately to the west of the town; it is a tributary of the Don River. The Callide Valley railway line passed through the locality with Jambin railway station () serving the town. That section of the line is now closed and the station abandoned. However, other parts of the Callide Valley line in Jamin were integrated into the Moura railway line, which serves the mining industry, connecting mines with the Port of Gladstone. The following stations in Jambin are on the Moura line: * Argoon railway station () *Koonkool railway station () *Earlsfield railway station () * Annandale railway station () *Boundary Hill railway station () All of these stations are operational apart from Argoon which is now abandoned. Boundary Hill station is on a balloon lo ... [...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] |
Burnett Highway
The Burnett Highway is an inland rural highway located in Queensland, Australia. The highway runs between its junction with the Bruce Highway at Gracemere, just south of Rockhampton, and Nanango. Its length is approximately 542 kilometres. The highway takes its name from the Burnett River, which it crosses in Gayndah. The Burnett Highway provides the most direct link between the northern end of the New England Highway (at Yarraman, south of Nanango) and Rockhampton. It is designated as a State Strategic Road (part of Australia’s Country Way) by the Queensland Government. History In January 2013, Cyclone Oswald caused flood damage to the road and a partial closure between Bouldercombe and Mount Morgan, which took longer than a year to repair. Roads of Strategic Importance upgrade The Roads of Strategic Importance initiative, last updated in March 2022, includes the following project for the Burnett Highway. Intersection upgrade A project to upgrade the intersection of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Receiving Office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional services, which vary by country. These include providing and accepting government forms (such as passport applications), and processing government services and fees (such as road tax, postal savings, or bank fees). The chief administrator of a post office is called a postmaster. Before the advent of postal codes and the post office, postal systems would route items to a specific post office for receipt or delivery. During the 19th century in the United States, this often led to smaller communities being renamed after their post offices, particularly after the Post Office Department began to require that post office names not be duplicated within a state. Name The term "post-office" has been in use since the 1650s, shortly after the legalisa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wowan, Queensland
Wowan is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Banana, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Wowan had a population of 216 people. The town of Deeford is also within the locality. Geography The '' Dee River'' forms part of the eastern boundary. Both towns are located in the north-east of the locality with Deeford at near a crossing point of the Dee River. There are also a number of neighbourhoods within the location: * Buneru () * Cooneel () * Muruguran () The Leichhardt Highway runs through from north to south through the localityl, passing through the town of Wowan. History Wowan takes its name from the Wowan railway station, which in turn was named from the Aboriginal word for Australian brush-turkey. Deeford was originally known as Dundee, but was renamed Deeford on 6 November 1913 by the Queensland Surveyor-General. Dundee Provisional School opened on 1 June 1900. It closed in 1904 but reopened in 1905. On 1 January 1909 it became Dundee State Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1878 - 1954)
Events January–March * January 5 – Russo-Turkish War – Battle of Shipka Pass IV: Russian and Bulgarian forces defeat the Ottoman Empire. * January 9 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy. * January 17 – Battle of Philippopolis: Russian troops defeat the Turks. * January 23 – Benjamin Disraeli orders the British fleet to the Dardanelles. * January 24 – Russian revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, Governor of Saint Petersburg. * January 28 – '' The Yale News'' becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States. * January 31 – Turkey agrees to an armistice at Adrianople. * February 2 – Greece declares war on the Ottoman Empire. * February 7 – Pope Pius IX dies, after a 31½ year reign (the longest definitely confirmed). * February 8 – The British fleet enters Turkish waters, and anchors off Istanbul; Russia threatens to occupy Istanbul, but does not carry out t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
