Beilba is a rural

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in the

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, Australia. In the , Beilba had a population of 35 people.

Geography

The

Carnarvon Highway Carnarvon Highway is a state highway in Queensland and New South Wales, Australia, linking the township of Rolleston in Queensland's Central Highlands Region, via the town of St George, eventually to Moree in northern New South Wales. It is ...

runs along part of the western boundary. There are three sections of the

Expedition National Park Expedition is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 490 km northwest of Brisbane. It is named for the Expedition Range of mountains. The park is part of the Brigalow Belt bioregion. This area is mostly dominated by dry eucalyptus fores ...

in the north and east of the locality. Doonkuna State Forest is in the west of the locality with Beilba State Forest in the east of the locality and Hallett State Forest in the south of the locality. Apart from these protected areas, the land use is predominantly

grazing In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to free range (roam around) and consume wild vegetations in order to feed conversion ratio, convert the otherwise indigestible (by human diges ...

on native vegetation.

Entymology

The locality is named after Beilba, an Indigenous Australian resistance fighter who helped lead the

Hornet Bank massacre The Hornet Bank massacre was the killing of eleven British settlers, which included eight members of the Fraser family, by a group of mostly Yiman people, Yiman Indigenous Australians. The massacre occurred at about one or two o'clock in the mor ...

Demographics

In the , Beilba had a population of 49 people. In the , Beilba had a population of 35 people.

Education

There are no schools in Beilba. The nearest government schools are Injune State School (Prep to Year 10) in

Injune Injune is a rural town and locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Injune had a population of 429 people. Geography Injune is a small town in South West Queensland. It located on the Carnarvon Highway, ...

to the south-west and Aracadia Valley State School (Prep to Year 6) in neighbouring Arcadia Valley to the north. However, students in the north-east of Beilba might be too distant from these schools for a daily commute. Also, there are no nearby schools offering education to Year 12. The alternatives are

distance education Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at school, or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time and distance; today, it usually involves online ...

and boarding school.

References

{{Maranoa Region Maranoa Region Localities in Queensland