Gidya is a rural

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in the

Shire of Burke The Shire of Burke is a local government area in North West Queensland, Australia. The shire lies on the south coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria and abuts the border with the Northern Territory. It covers an area of , and has existed as a local ...

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, Australia. In the , Gidya had "no people or a very low population".

Geography

Gidya is part of the

Gulf Country The Gulf Country or North West Queensland is the region of woodland and savanna grassland surrounding the Gulf of Carpentaria in north western Queensland and eastern Northern Territory on the north coast of Australia. The region is also ca ...

. The

Leichhardt River The Leichhardt River is a river in north-west Queensland, Australia. Course The source of the river is in the Selwyn Range under Rifle Creek Hill and fed by Rifle Creek approximately south of the mining town Mount Isa. It runs in a generally n ...

forms the eastern 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. Most of the locality is within the Kamilaroi pastoral station, which is owned by the

Stanbroke Pastoral Company Stanbroke Pastoral Company is a company once owned by AMP Limited that was once one of the largest land owners in Australia. Established in about 1964, by 2003 the company owned 27 cattle stations in Queensland and the Northern Territory controlli ...

History

The locality was officially named and bounded by the

Minister for Natural Resources and Mines The Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing, and Regional and Rural Development is a department of the Government of Queensland, Queensland Government in Australia. The department is responsible for regulating mining, and resour ...

on 25 May 2001.

Demographics

In the , Gidya had "no people or a very low population". In the , Gidya had "no people or a very low population".

Education

There are no schools in Gidya nor nearby. The options 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 Burke Shire of Burke Localities in Queensland