Eagle Heights is a town within the
locality
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* Locality (association), an association of community regeneration organizations in England
* Locality (linguistics)
* Locality (settlement)
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of
Tamborine Mountain
Tamborine Mountain is a plateau and locality in the Scenic Rim Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Tamborine Mountain had a population of 7,506 people.
Geography
The plateau is a , . The name is from the of Yugumbir language of the Wanger ...
in
South East
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Queensland
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, nickname = Sunshine State
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, map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia
, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, established_ ...
, Australia.
History
The town is home to the
Gold Coast hinterland's oldest remaining church. The St Andrew's Wesleyan Church on Long Road was built in 1880.
Eagle Heights Post Office opened on 1 July 1927 (a
receiving office
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had been open from 1926).
Formerly a suburb in its own right, in 1997, Eagle Heights was merged with other former suburbs
North Tamborine and
Mount Tamborine to create the larger
locality
Locality may refer to:
* Locality (association), an association of community regeneration organizations in England
* Locality (linguistics)
* Locality (settlement)
* Suburbs and localities (Australia), in which a locality is a geographic subdivis ...
of Tamborine Mountain.
At the
2006 census
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In mathematics
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, Eagle Heights had a population of 2,702.
See also
*
Tamborine National Park
Tamborine is a national park in the Gold Coast hinterland and is a part of the Scenic Rim Regional Council of South East Queensland, Australia, south of Brisbane.
It covers 11.60 km² on the plateau of Tamborine Mountain and around its ...
References
External links
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Towns in Queensland
Tamborine Mountain
Scenic Rim Region