Amberley is a suburb in the

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, Australia. In the , Amberley had a population of 253 people.

Geography

Australia's biggest

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, the

RAAF Base Amberley RAAF Base Amberley is a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) military airbase located southwest of Ipswich, Queensland in Australia and southwest of Brisbane CBD. It is currently home to No. 1 Squadron (operating the F/A-18F Super Hornet), N ...

is situated here and the

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has a weather observation station in Amberley. To the south of Amberley is the Fassifern Valley. The Jeebropilly coal mine is located just to the west of Amberley.

History

The suburb is named after Amberley in the

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. The name was used by James and Martha Collett for their residence in the 1850s as it was their hometown. Previously the area was known as ''Three-Mile Creek'', referring to it being three miles along on the Old Toowoomba Road from Ipswich''.'' In 1861, a school commenced at Willowbank on a sheep and cattle station owned by Darby McGrath. McGrath then asked the

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to take over and donated land for the construction of a new building, resulting in the opening of Warrill Creek State School opened on 22 May 1862 on what is now the south-western part of the

. On 28 January 1888 the school relocated to a new site at Sandridge but it was flooded in 1893 by Warrill Creek. In 1903, it was renamed Amberley State School. This school is one of the oldest state primary schools in Queensland. The outbreak of

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escalated activity on the air force base and it was decided to close the school at the end of 1941 and it re-opened at the start of 1947. Concerns about aircraft noise at the school lead to the construction of a new school on Rosewood Road further from the base in the late 1970s. On 1 January 2010, the school was again relocated to Deebing Creek Road,

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and renamed Amberley District State School. In December 1867 a United Methodist Free Church was opened at Three-Mile Creek. In the , Amberley had a population of 253 people.

Education

There are no schools in Amberley. The nearest primary schools are Amberley District State School in neighbouring

to the east, Walloon State School in neighbouring Walloon to the north-west and Leichhardt State School in neighbouring

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to the north-east. The nearest secondary schools are Bremer State High School in

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to the east and Rosewood State High School in

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to the north-east.

Climate

Amberley has a humid subtropical climate (''Cfa'') with hot humid summers and cool, crisp winters that have a high diurnal range which provide frost in some mornings. Its lowest temperature of -4.9 degrees Celsius occurred on the 8 August 1995, when southern Queensland suffered a severe

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. The previous coldest temperature was -4.3 degrees reached on 29 July 1994. The town is fairly sunny, receiving 110.3 clear days.Jack Frost makes his icy presence felt. Page 3.

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9 August 1995

References

External links

* {{Ipswich City Queensland in World War II Suburbs of Ipswich, Queensland