Mount Martin is a rural
locality
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* Locality (linguistics)
* Locality (settlement)
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in the
Mackay Region
The Mackay Region is a local government area located in North Queensland, Queensland, Australia. Established in 2008, it was preceded by three previous local government areas with modern histories extending back as far as 1869.
It has an estima ...
,
Queensland
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, nickname = Sunshine State
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, Australia.
In the Mount Martin had a population of 186 people.
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Geography
The predominant land use is growing sugarcane with some grazing
In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to roam around and consume wild vegetations in order to convert the otherwise indigestible (by human gut) cellulose within grass and other ...
on native vegetation. There is a network of cane tramways
The rail network in Queensland, Australia, was the first in the world to adopt narrow gauge for a main line, and now the second largest narrow gauge network in the world, consists of:
*the North Coast Line (NCL) extending from Brisbane to R ...
to deliver the harvested sugarcane to the sugar mills for processing.
History
Mount Martin Provisional School opened in May 1906. On 1 January 1909 it became Mount Martin State School. It closed on 31 December 1961.
Heritage listings
Mount Martin has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
* Mirani-Mount Ossa Road: Mount Martin Cane Lift
Education
There are no schools in Mount Martin. The nearest primary schools are Mirani State School in neighbouring Mirani to the south-east and Gargett State School in Gargett to the south-west. The nearest secondary school is Mirani State High School in Mirani.
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Towns in Queensland
Mackay Region
Localities in Queensland