Kynuna is an
outback
The Outback is a remote, vast, sparsely populated area of Australia. The Outback is more remote than the bush. While often envisaged as being arid, the Outback regions extend from the northern to southern Australian coastlines and encompass a n ...
town in the
Shire of McKinlay and a
locality
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* Locality (linguistics)
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split between the Shire of McKinlay and the
Shire of Winton in
Queensland
)
, nickname = Sunshine State
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, Australia.
In the the locality of Kynuna had a population of 55 people.
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Geography
Kynuna is on the banks of the Diamantina River
The Diamantina River is a major river located in Central West Queensland and the far north of South Australia.
The river was named by William Landsborough in 1866 for Lady Diamantina Bowen (née Roma), wife of Sir George Bowen, the first Govern ...
. The town is located on the Landsborough Highway, north west of the state capital, Brisbane
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and south east of the regional centre of Mount Isa. The Richmond–Winton Road follows a section of the south-eastern boundary.
Kynuna lies at the northern rim of a roughly circular zone measuring some 130 km across that has been identified by Geoscience Australia as a crustal anomaly. Proof is currently lacking as to the cause, but it is believed likely that the anomaly was caused by an asteroid strike that happened about 300 million years ago.
History
The Wanamara lands ran from the north as far as Kynuna. '' Wanamarra'' (also known as ''Maykulan'' and ''Wunumura'') is an Australian Aboriginal language
The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum of around 250 (using the technical definition of 'language' as non-mutually intellig ...
in North West Queensland. The language region includes areas within the Shire of McKinlay, Shire of Cloncurry and Shire of Richmond, including the Flinders River area, and the towns of Kynuna and Richmond
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* Richmond, London, a part of London
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.Kynuna
Kynuna is an outback town in the Shire of McKinlay and a locality split between the Shire of McKinlay and the Shire of Winton in Queensland, Australia. In the the locality of Kynuna had a population of 55 people.
Geography
Kynuna is on the ban ...
pastoral station, at a place where five roads met the Diamantina River. The town was gazetted in 1894 and at one stage soon after had a population of around 700 people and was home to three pubs.Waltzing Matilda
"Waltzing Matilda" is a song developed in the Australian style of poetry and folk music called a bush ballad. It has been described as the country's "unofficial national anthem".
The title was Australian slang for travelling on foot (waltzing) ...
". Paterson was at one time engaged to Sarah Riley, the daughter of a local squatter
Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use. The United Nations estimated in 2003 that there ...
, and visited the area.receiving office
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had been open from 1882) and closed in 1990.2006 census
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In mathematics
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, Kynuna had a population of 95.
Education
There are no schools in Kynuna. The nearest primary school is Julia Creek State School in neighbouring Julia Creek to the north. There are no secondary schools nearby.Distance education
Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at a school, or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time and distance. Traditionally, this usually in ...
and boarding schools are the options.
Amenities
Today, the town has one pub, the Blue Heeler Hotel. The pub was built as the Kynuna Hotel in 1889.
References
External links
* {{cite web, url=https://gisservices.information.qld.gov.au/arcgis/rest/directories/historicalscans/cad_scans/cad-map-town-kynuna-1976.jpg, title=Town map of Kynuna, date=1976, publisher=Queensland Government
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Towns in Queensland
Shire of Mckinlay
Shire of Winton
Localities in Queensland