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Blantyre, Queensland
Blantyre is a rural Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Scenic Rim Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Blantyre had a population of 54 people. Geography The predominant land use is Pastoralism, grazing on native vegetation. History The name ''Blantyre'' was originally a property name given by James Moffatt, believed to be after a Scottish town of Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Blantyre. Later, it was also used for a railway station (now closed). Blantyre State School opened on 28 February 1876. It closed in 1886. It reopened on 21 November 1887 as Blantyre Provisional School. On 6 July 1901, it became Blantyre State School again. It closed in 1969. It was on the western half of 107 Blantyre Road (). Following the closure, the school building was relocated to the Laidley Pioneer Village and Museum, Laidley Pioneer Village. The Fassifern railway line (Queensland's first branch railway line) opened from Ipswich, Queensland, Ipswich to Harrisville, Queensland, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AEST
Australia uses three main time zones: Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST; UTC+10:00), Australian Central Standard Time (ACST; UTC+09:30) and Australian Western Standard Time (AWST; UTC+08:00). Time is regulated by the individual states and territories of Australia, state governments, some of which observe daylight saving time (DST). Daylight saving time (+1 hour) is used between the first Sunday in October and the first Sunday in April in jurisdictions in the south and south-east: * New South Wales, Victoria, Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, Jervis Bay Territory and the Australian Capital Territory switches to the Australian Eastern Daylight Saving Time (AEDT; UTC+11:00), and * South Australia switches to the Australian Central Daylight Saving Time (ACDT; UTC+10:30). Standard time was introduced in the 1890s when all of the Australian colonies adopted it. Before the switch to standard time zones, each local city or town was free to determine its local time, called local mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
