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Friday Pocket, Queensland
Friday Pocket is a rural Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Friday Pocket had a population of 39 people. Geography The Walter Hill Range runs from the north-west to the south-west of the locality and then forms the south-western and southern boundary of the locality. The only named peak in the locality is Mount Myrtle in the south of the locality () rising above sea level, the highest point in the locality. The land falls away from the range to the east with the lowest part of the locality being above sea level. A number of creeks rise on the eastern side of the Walter Hill Range and flow towards the locality's eastern boundary. To the west of the range, the land also falls away towards Smiths Gap, which loosely bounds the locality to the west. The Bruce Highway and North Coast railway line, Queensland, North Coast railway line both enter the locality from the south-west (Djarawong, Queensland, Djarawon ... [...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] |
