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Moogerah, Queensland
Moogerah is a rural locality in the Scenic Rim Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Moogerah had a population of 242 people. Geography The Moogerah Dam () and its reservoir, Lake Moogerah () are located in the north of the locality. The lake is fed by Reynolds Creek. Moogerah has the following mountains: * Mount Alford (Teenaryvilla) () * Mount Asplenium () * Mount Greville (Meebalboogan) () * Mount Neilson () * Panorama Point () * The Bluff () History The name ''Moogerah'' was used by Yuggera people, meaning ''thunder''. In 1906, dairy farms of were sold as the Moogera Paddock estate. The estate was centred around the confluence of Coulsen's and Reynold's Creek, land which is now under the Moogerah Dam. One of the advertised benefits of the estate was its proximity to the proposed Via Recta railway (a "straight" route from Brisbane to Sydney), which was never built. Moogerah Provisional School opened on 4 August 1908. It became Moogerah State School on 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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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] |
