Eurombah is a rural locality split between the

Shire of Banana The Shire of Banana is a local government area located in the Capricorn region of Queensland, Australia, inland from the regional city of Gladstone. The shire was named after the first township in the region (Banana), which in turn was named fo ...

and the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Eurombah had a population of 67 people.

Geography

The '' Dawson River'' forms part of the northern boundary. The neighbourhoods of Peek-A-Doo and Hornet Bank are within the locality.

History

The

Hornet Bank massacre The Hornet Bank massacre involves the killing of eleven settlers (seven members of the Fraser family, including a woman and five of her children) and one Aboriginal station-hand, by a group of Iman Aboriginal Australians. The massacre occurred ...

in 1857 happened nearby. The Peek-A-Doo State School opened on 3 February 1964 at 10118 Roma Taroom Road (). It was mothballed on 13 April 2010 (having no students). In June 2010, there was outrage when it was announced that the then-mothballed school would be allocated $250,000 by the Australian Government's Building the Education Revolution school building program to construct a resource centre. However, it was not constructed as the school closed on 31 December 2010. The school's website was archived. In the , Eurombah had a population of 67 people.

Heritage listings

Eurombah has a number of

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sites, including: *

Fraser family grave site and memorial, Hornet Bank The Fraser family grave site and memorial at Hornet Bank is a heritage-listed cemetery and memorial at Hornet Bank Station, Hornet Bank Road, Eurombah near Taroom, Shire of Banana, Queensland, Australia. It was added to the Queensland Heritage ...

: Hornet Bank Road ():

Education

There are no schools in Eurombah. The nearest primary schools are Taroom State School in Taroom and Gromont State School in Grosmont. The nearest secondary schools are Taroom State School and Wandoan State School in Wandoan, but both of these schools provide education only to Year 10. For schooling to Year 12, the nearest option is Roma State College in

Roma Roma or ROMA may refer to: Places Australia * Roma, Queensland, a town ** Roma Airport ** Roma Courthouse ** Electoral district of Roma, defunct ** Town of Roma, defunct town, now part of the Maranoa Regional Council *Roma Street, Brisbane, a ...

, away. Other alternatives are distance education and

boarding school A boarding school is a school where pupils live within premises while being given formal instruction. The word "boarding" is used in the sense of "room and board", i.e. lodging and meals. As they have existed for many centuries, and now exten ...

References

{{Banana Shire Western Downs Region Shire of Banana Localities in Queensland