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Duchess, Queensland
Duchess is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Shire of Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Duchess had a population of 53 people. Geography The town is in the east of the locality. The Cloncurry Duchess Road, which is part of the Cloncurry-Dajarra Road, passes through the locality from south to east, passing through the town. The Great Northern Railway (Mt Isa line), Great Northern railway passes through the locality from east to north-west, passing through the town which is served by the Duchess railway station (). Duchess is surrounded by a number of pastoral stations including Mayfield station and Stradbroke station. The Dajarra railway line passes through the locality. Butru is a neighbourhood () within the locality, which developed around the Butru railway station. Juenburra is neighbourhood () within the locality, which developed around the Juenburra railway station. Woobera is a neighbourhood () within the loc ... [...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] |
