Caroline Crossing is a rural

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in the

Shire of Murweh The Shire of Murweh is a Local government in Australia, local government area in the Maranoa, Queensland, Maranoa district, which is part of South West Queensland, Australia. The administrative centre and largest town in the shire is Charleville ...

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, Australia. In the , Caroline Crossing had a population of 44 people.

Geography

The

Landsborough Highway Landsborough Highway is a highway in western Queensland, Australia, running in the northwest–southeast direction from Morven to Cloncurry. The Landsborough Highway runs through vast tracts of land that was once occupied by William Landsboro ...

forms a small part of the south-western boundary of the locality. The land use is

grazing In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to free range (roam around) and consume wild vegetations in order to feed conversion ratio, convert the otherwise indigestible (by human diges ...

on native vegetation.

History

The locality was named and bounded on 28 March 2002. It is presumably named after the ford across the

Warrego River The Warrego River is an intermittent river that is part of the Darling catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, which is located in South West Queensland and in the Orana region of New South Wales, Australia. The Warrego River is the north ...

known as Caroline Crossing ().

Demographics

In the , Caroline Crossing had a population of 13 people. In the , Caroline Crossing had a population of 44 people.

Education

There are no schools in Caroline Crossing. The nearest government primary school is Augathella State School in neighbouring

Augathella Augathella is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Murweh, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Augathella had a population of 328 people. Geography Augathella lies on the Matilda Highway, is north of the town of Charlevil ...

to the south-west. However, students in some parts of Caroline Crossing would be too distant for a daily commute. There are no secondary schools nearby. The alternatives are

distance education Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at school, or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time and distance; today, it usually involves online ...

and boarding school.

References

{{Shire of Murweh Shire of Murweh Localities in Queensland