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Glen Russell, Queensland
Glen Russell is a rural locality in the Shire of Mareeba, 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. In the , Glen Russell had "no people or a very low population". Demographics In the , Glen Russell had a population of 12 people. In the , Glen Russell had "no people or a very low population". References {{Shire of Mareeba Shire of Mareeba Localities in 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] |
Electoral District Of Cook
Cook is an electoral district in Queensland, Australia. Cook covers the vast Cape York Peninsula north of Cairns, including the resort town of Port Douglas and the Torres Strait Islands. It is named after British navigator James Cook, who charted the coast and landed on Possession Island – one of the Torres Strait islands – in 1770. History 1883 election In the 1883 election, there were four candidates for the (then) two-member electorate. They were: * Thomas Campbell * Frederick Cooper (one of the sitting members) * John Hamilton * Charles Lumley Hill (a former member in Gregory) Cooper and Hamilton were elected, but there were allegations of "ballot stuffing", specifically that there were too many votes cast at the California Gully and Halpin's Creek polling stations given the number of electors. The unsuccessful candidates, Campbell and Hill, petitioned to overturn the ballot. In December 1883, arrests were made in connection with the ballot stuffing. On 4 Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Kennedy
The Division of Kennedy is an Electorates of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian electoral division in the States and territories of Australia, state of Queensland. It is the state's second-largest division after the neighbouring Division of Maranoa, stretching from the Northern Territory border and the Gulf of Carpentaria to the Coral Sea, just southeast of Cairns and northwest of Townsville. Since 1993 its Australian House of Representatives, MP has been Bob Katter, who has been Father of the House since 2022. Katter founded Katter's Australian Party in 2011, after sitting 10 years as an Independent following him leaving the National Party of Australia, National Party. Geography The Division of Kennedy includes the regional city of Mount Isa in the west, as well as surrounding towns such as Cloncurry, Queensland, Cloncurry and Camooweal. In the Gulf of Carpentaria, it includes the Wellesley Islands. On the Pacific coast, it includes settlements such as Forrest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Mulligan, Queensland
Mount Mulligan is a former mining town and now a rural locality in the Shire of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Mount Mulligan had "no people or a very low population". It is the site of the Mount Mulligan mine disaster, Queensland's worst mining disaster. Geography Although still officially gazetted, Mount Mulligan is now a ghost town, with a single cemetery, a single occupied residence, a single chimney stack, and the overgrown remains of the once busy mining operations and electricity generator. Nearby towns are Julatten, Dimbulah, Mount Carbine and Mount Molloy. History The conglomerate and sandstone mountain range is known to local Djungan people as Ngarrabullgan. The Djungan people began living on the mountain about 40,000 years ago but ceased to camp on the range about 600 years ago. The range was named Mount Mulligan after prospector James Venture Mulligan by his colleagues in their 1874 exploration expedition searching the Hodgki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paddys Green, Queensland
Paddys Green is a rural locality in the Shire of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia. In the , Paddys Green had a population of 405 people. Geography ''Granite Creek'' forms the south-eastern boundary. Mareeba - Dimbulah Road (State Route 27) enters the locality from the east (Mareeba) and exits to the south-west ( Arriga). It loosely follows the ridgeline of the Great Dividing Range. Hann Tableland National Park is in the north-west of the locality. Apart from the national park, the land use is a mixture of grazing on native vegetation, growing tropical fruit (such as mangoes, avocados, lychees) and sugarcane, and rural residential housing. Demographics In the , Paddys Green had a population of 361 people. In the , Paddys Green had a population of 405 people. Education There are no schools in Paddy Green. The nearest government primary schools are Mareeba State School in neighbouring Mareeba Mareeba is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Mareeba in Far No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arriga, Queensland
Arriga is a rural locality in the Shire of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia. It has Queensland's largest wind farm. In the , Arriga had a population of 1,323 people. Geography The Great Dividing Range passes through the south and east of the locality, with the following mountains within the locality: * Mount White () * Walsh Bluff () The Mareeba Dimbula Road enters the locality from the north-west ( Paddys Green) and exits to the west ( Mutchilba). History The Tableland Sugar Mill started operation on 28 June 1998. It was the first new sugar mill in Queensland for 75 years and the most technologically advanced making extensive use of automation and being environmentally-friendly. The Mount Emerald Wind Farm commenced generating wind energy from its 53 wind turbines in August 2019. Demographics In the , Arriga had a population of 702 people. In the , Arriga had a population of 1,079 people. In the , Arriga had a population of 1,323 people. Economy The Tableland Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thornborough, Queensland
Thornborough is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Thornborough had a population of 21 people. The town rose to prominence in the 1870s as a gold mining town in the Hodgkinson Minerals Area. Today, there are very few buildings remaining in the town. Geography The town of Kingsborough, another former mining town, is located to the north-east of the town of Thornborough (). Beaconsfield is a neighbourhood within the east of the locality (). Thornborough has the following mountains: * Bulls Pinnacles in the east of the locality () * Mount Mcleod in the south-east of the locality () * Mount Roberts in the north-west of the locality () Mount Mulligan Road enters the locality from the south ( Dimbulah), passes the town of Thornborough to the south-east, and then exits to the north-west ( Mount Mulligan). The Thornborough Kingsborough Road commences from Mount Mulligan Road as it passes the town of Thornborough ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suburbs And Localities (Australia)
Suburbs and localities are the names of geographic subdivisions in Australia, used mainly for address purposes. The term locality is used in rural areas, while the term suburb is used in urban areas. Postcodes in Australia, Australian postcodes closely align with the boundaries of localities and suburbs. This Australian usage of the term "suburb" differs from common American and British usage of suburb (municipality outside of a big city). The Australian usage is closer to the American or British use of "neighbourhood" or "district", and can be used to refer to any portion of a city. Unlike the use in British or American English, this term can include inner-city, outer-metropolitan and industrial areas. Localities existed in the past as informal units, but in 1996 the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping and the Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia (CGNA) decided to name and establish official boundaries for all localities and suburbs. There has sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shire Of Mareeba
The Shire of Mareeba is a Local government in Australia, local government area at the base of Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, inland from Cairns, Queensland, Cairns. The shire, administered from the town of Mareeba, Queensland, Mareeba, covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity from 1879 until 2008, when it amalgamated with several councils in the Atherton Tableland area to become the Tablelands Region. On 20 March 2013, Mareeba residents voted in favour of a proposal to reverse the amalgamation and to re-establish Mareeba Shire. The new Mareeba Shire was re-established on 1 January 2014. In the , the Shire of Mareeba had a population of 22,858 people. History The Woothakata Division, based in the mining town of Thornborough, Queensland, Thornborough on the Hodgkinson Minerals Area, Hodgkinson goldfield, was created on 11 November 1879 as one of 74 divisions around Queensland under the ''Divisional Boards Act 1879'' with a population of 1836 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south, respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and the Pacific Ocean; to the state's north is the Torres Strait, separating the Australian mainland from Papua New Guinea, and the Gulf of Carpentaria to the north-west. With an area of , Queensland is the world's List of country subdivisions by area, sixth-largest subnational entity; it List of countries and dependencies by area, is larger than all but 16 countries. Due to its size, Queensland's geographical features and climates are diverse, and include tropical rainforests, rivers, coral reefs, mountain ranges and white sandy beaches in its Tropical climate, tropical and Humid subtropical climate, sub-tropical c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
