The County of Rosebery is a

county A county () is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL. Brookes (ed.) '' Chambers Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005. in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoti ...

(a cadastral division) in

Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...

. It is centred in the South Gregory Lands District. Like all counties in

, it is a non-functional administrative unit, that is used mainly for the purpose of registering land titles. The county is divided into civil parishes.

History

County of Rosebery was traditional lands of the Wongkanguru people, and the first pastoralists to the area were in the 1870s with the town of

Birdsville Birdsville is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Diamantina, Queensland, Australia. The locality is on the Queensland border with both the Northern Territory and South Australia. The town is situated north of the South Australian bord ...

founded in the early 1880s. The seat of local government is in

Bedourie, Queensland Bedourie is a town and a Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Shire of Diamantina, Queensland, Australia. It is on the Queensland borders, border with the Northern Territory. In the , the locality of Bedourie had a population of 1 ...

, having been in Birdsville till 1953. The Courthouse at Birdsville still operates. The county came into being in March 1901, when the Queensland Governor issued a proclamation legally dividing Queensland into counties under the ''Land Act 1897''.A Proclamation". Queensland Government Gazette. 75. 8 March 1901. pp. 967-980.

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